Steven Spielberg Quotes - Page 6

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

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

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.

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.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.

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

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

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 .

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.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

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

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

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

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.