Film Quotes by Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

— Steven Spielberg

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— 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 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

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

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

— Steven Spielberg

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied…

— 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

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

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

— 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 turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies…

— 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

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

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

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and…

— Steven Spielberg

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

— Steven Spielberg

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone…

— Steven Spielberg

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

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for…

— 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

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after…

— 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

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

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