Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time; his films having made nearly $8 billion internationally. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3 billion. As of 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 Greatest People of the Century. And at the end of the twentieth century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation. In a career that spans almost four decades, Spielberg's films have touched many themes and genres. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, three of his films, Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park became the highest grossing films for their time. During his early years as a director, his sci-fi and adventure films were often seen as the archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his movies began addressing such historical issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war, and terrorism.
“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.”
“The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.”
“This is reality, Greg.-Elliot from E.T.”
“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.”
“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.”
“What kind of a horse?""A miraculous kind of horse”
“You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here”
“Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home”
“He never gave up. And he does that for us”
“Through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. But you can’t get everybody to interpret the result in the same Way. And that’s thrilling to know – that everybody will see it differently.”
“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”
“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”
“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
“I dream for a living.”
“Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?'Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how he looked to her---a yelling machine. And she was prepared to accept more yelling because she loved him.”
“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”
“The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life. ”