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
If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his… — 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
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a… — 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 way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got… — 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 love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way. — 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
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
There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then… — 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
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