Steven Spielberg Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Character, Hands, Color

• I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

  Steven Spielberg

  Character, Thinking, Keys

• There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Character, Stories

  Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

• I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Character, Thinking

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

• I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

  Steven Spielberg

  Real, Hero, Character

  Bridge Of Spies Press Conference, www.blackfilm.com. October 12, 2015.

• I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

  Steven Spielberg

  Character, Thinking, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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