Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts… — 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
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to… — 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
I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing… — 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
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a… — 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
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
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. — 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
Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. — 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