29 Steven Spielberg Quotes

Steven Spielberg quotes

1. The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

2. I dream for a living.

3. Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

4. Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?

5. Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Searchers.

6. Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

7. I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

8. 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.

9. I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

10. I think the real indicator that games have become a storytelling art form, will be when somebody confesses that they cried at level 17.

11. I would love to see the British film industry get back on its feet again.

12. I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

13. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

14. The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

15. Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

16. With Star Wars, George put the butter back into the popcorn.

1. Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

2. Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

3. I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

4. I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

5. I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .

6. Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

7. I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

8. 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.

9. Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

10. 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, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.

11. I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

12. Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

13. I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.