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
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 think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas]… — 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 don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today.… — 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
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
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
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
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
I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start… — 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
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
3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing… — 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
I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great… — 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 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
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 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
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where 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 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
