Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct… — 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 essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and… — 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… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the… — 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
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 did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in… — 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