Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids… — 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
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making… — 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
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
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
I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what… — 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
I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 that film… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
