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
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any… — 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
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
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 only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children.… — 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
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
The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If… — 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
I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12… — 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