Steven Spielberg Quotes

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side of it and that part of the filmmaking world and I enjoy developing things. It's an area that I'll continue to be more active in as time goes by.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.