Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. Steven Spielberg More Quotes by Steven Spielberg More Quotes From Steven Spielberg I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter. Steven Spielberg kids school thinking I am a very impatient director. Steven Spielberg impatient directors You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome. Steven Spielberg know-how leader overcoming I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. Steven Spielberg want science fiction When I grow up, I still want to be a director. Steven Spielberg growing-up want directors I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. Steven Spielberg decision directors thinking I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. Steven Spielberg successful men two I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games. Steven Spielberg games action play Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that. Steven Spielberg spheres who-i-am goodbye I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family. Steven Spielberg careers feelings thinking The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. Steven Spielberg editors cutting editing I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. Steven Spielberg reviews careers I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. Steven Spielberg keys character thinking When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. Steven Spielberg outsiders skills made Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. Steven Spielberg phones technology party 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 sleep night believe I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. Steven Spielberg vision stories father The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Steven Spielberg miracle looks moving I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. Steven Spielberg very-good inspired Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. Steven Spielberg squeezing type hollywood
