Steven Spielberg Quotes
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Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.
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I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .
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The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
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I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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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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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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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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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
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When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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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.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.