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
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.
drama eye makeup
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.
generations reader
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
becoming looks stories
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
opportunity creating giving
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
thinking audience
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
wind feelings intellectual
I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something.
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.
want directors film
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
directors impatient
I am a very impatient director.
technology bells noise
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.