One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100%… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: The Seven Samurai, Lawrence… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
![“I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters…” quote by Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/521/steven-spielberg-963_careers_i-ve-kept-the-people-who-ve-been-in-my-c_71893.jpg)
