Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. — 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
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. — 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
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 did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has… — 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 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
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
Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter… — 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'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 wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to… — 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
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 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
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that… — 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
There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie. — 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
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make. — 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
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
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
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
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 dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie… — 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
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
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'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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/521/steven-spielberg-963_careers_i-ve-kept-the-people-who-ve-been-in-my-c_71893.jpg)
