Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
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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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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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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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I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
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I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
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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 is. But I change; you change.
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
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Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.
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I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and Kirk Douglas is the only movie star I ever met.
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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot needless footage and then don't use later on in the process.
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I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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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.
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I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
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All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.
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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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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.