Steven Spielberg Quotes

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do.

I'm not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it or not at all.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

You become the movie you are making.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I consider all my films experiments.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I think films are bigger than structure.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.