Steven Spielberg Quotes

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Steven Spielberg

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • High
  • Want
  • Problems

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • War
  • Film
  • Knew

• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Play
  • Face
  • Characters

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Audience

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Film
  • Being
  • Cherish

• I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Film
  • TV
  • Phases

• I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Camera

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Culture
  • You

• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • World
  • Just
  • Camera

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Style
  • Opinion
  • Camera

• My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Think
  • Film
  • Understand

• I came from a real working-class show business family.

  

  Sally Field
  • Real
  • Family
  • Business

• For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

  

  Sappho
  • Earth
  • Dark
  • Dies

• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Money
  • Husband
  • Taste

• I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • People
  • America
  • Innovation

• I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Film
  • Camera
  • Smell