Audience Quotes by Steven Spielberg

14 Audience quotes by Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg’s 14 short reflections on viewers give a quick peek into the filmmaker’s thoughts on audience impact. Though limited, the lines hint at his cinematic philosophy.

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Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

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I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

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I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway…

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Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter…

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Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones…

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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I…

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When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about…

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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody…

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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts…

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I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I…

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Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience…

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The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to…

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I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna…

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I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

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I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted…

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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…

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Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

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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,…

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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

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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…

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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…

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Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did…

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