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
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
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 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
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
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible… — 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
I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you… — 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
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
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
I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
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
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
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… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
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… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
![“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/i/521/steven-spielberg-963_careers_i-ve-kept-the-people-who-ve-been-in-my-c_71893.jpg)
![“My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.” quote by Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/steven-spielberg-963_abraham_my-movies-more-often-are-told-through-pi_136993.jpg)
![“It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.” quote by Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/steven-spielberg-963_capitol_it-lincoln-movie-had-nothing-to-do-with_993663.jpg)
