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 have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do -… — 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
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and… — 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
Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a… — 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
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas]… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for… — 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
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