Steven Spielberg Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kids, Knowing, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Film, Should

  "Steven Spielberg's Counterlife" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

• Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors, Arabia, Looks

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Smell, Knowing, Cameras

• The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film, Only Time

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors, Want, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Technology, Stories, Bells

• A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fashion, Years, Film

• I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Focus, Depth

  "Oscars Q&A: Steven Spielberg On 'War Horse's Four-Legged Actors, 3D And Lessons Learned". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. February 1, 2012.

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Commitment, Bags, Way

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film, Projects, Knows

  "Spielberg Gives 'Report' on the Future After 9/11". Interview with Bill Hemmer, edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

• I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Decision, Directors

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

  Steven Spielberg

  America, England, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

  Steven Spielberg

  World, Film, Makers

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Long, Directors

• There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Saving Private Ryan, Three, Proud

  "Broadcast Film critics name 'Saving Private Ryan' best film" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1999.

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Doors, Kind, Film

• I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Years, Important

• It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Exercise, Perspective

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Careers, People

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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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  Cutting, Editing, Editors

• There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.

  Steven Spielberg

  Airplane, Thinking, Wire

  "AICN Exclusive: Spielberg speaks! Jaws Blu-Ray in the works with no 'digital corrections!'". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. June 3, 2011.

• The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Jurassic Park, Looks

  "‘Jurassic Park’: Laura Dern Role Could Have Gone To Helen Hunt Or Gwyneth Paltrow" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Character, Thinking, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Cost, Television

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