Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I have always admired him Bergman, and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience...
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I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
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Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.
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With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.
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Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
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I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.
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The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
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I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.
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I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
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I've always been interested in UFOs.
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I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.
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Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
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The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing else has ever come close.
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I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
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People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.
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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
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Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
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There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's Douglas performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.
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In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.