Cinema Quotes by Steven Spielberg

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

— Steven Spielberg

I am a very impatient director.

— Steven Spielberg

I think all directors should be animators...

— Steven Spielberg

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

— Steven Spielberg

My dad took me to my first movie.

— Steven Spielberg

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

— Steven Spielberg

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

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

— Steven Spielberg

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and…

— Steven Spielberg

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

— Steven Spielberg

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

— Steven Spielberg

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

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

— Steven Spielberg

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

— Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has…

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live…

— Steven Spielberg

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films…

— Steven Spielberg

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

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will…

— Steven Spielberg

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

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first…

— Steven Spielberg

Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: The Seven Samurai, Lawrence…

— Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way…

— Steven Spielberg

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

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