Latest Steven Spielberg Quotes from Interviews

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• I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we've given them a voice.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It's a biblical term, it's important, and it's embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.

  Steven Spielberg

  Love You, Biblical, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

  Steven Spielberg

  Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing, in that I get so wound up in the film that I become selfless to the point where I lose too much weight.

  Steven Spielberg

  Selfless, Different, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

  Steven Spielberg

  Marijuana, Prison, Breakdown

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

  Steven Spielberg

  Made, Enjoy, Sequels

  Source: thesource.com

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, Watches, Looks

  "Spartacus really does endure: Actor Kirk Douglas celebrates his 100th birthday" by Lindsey Bahr, www.pressherald.com. December 10, 2016.

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Stars, Years, Television

• With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fun, Creating, Imagination

  Source: collider.com

• 3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fire, Cameras, Tools

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Matter, Sometimes, Imagine

• I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

  Steven Spielberg

  Too Much, Audience, Ifs

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

• Actors just need each other to act together.

  Steven Spielberg

  Together, Needs, Actors

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

• I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Thinking, Imagination

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

• If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Want, Ingredients, Made

• I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

  Steven Spielberg

  Real, Hero, Character

  Bridge Of Spies Press Conference, www.blackfilm.com. October 12, 2015.

• I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Gun, Sharks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Looks, Behind You

  Source: collider.com

• I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  People, Tools, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• 3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, People, Six

  Source: collider.com

• Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

  Steven Spielberg

  Perfect, Stories, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

• Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Forget Everything, Forget, Picks

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Drama, Eye, Makeup

  Source: collider.com