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
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 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
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 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 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
I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do -… — 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
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
There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our… — 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 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
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
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
All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing… — 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