Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE OMRI is an American director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Spielberg is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 December 1947
CountryUnited States of America
resourceful
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
kurosawa our-time pictorial
Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
motivational giving stories
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
awkward momentum majority
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
inspirational motivational dream
I dream for a living.
trying sponges
When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
editing my-favorite filmmaking
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
directors impatient
I am a very impatient director.
oscars fantastic wanted
Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.
careers directors hollywood
The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
looks four samurai
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.
horse war careers
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
veterans-day father sacrifice
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
mistake moving forgiving
It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.