Steven Spielberg Quotes

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

I think directing is a huge responsibility and it's not something where you can just be like, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a go!" I think it's something you really need to focus on, and put a lot of effort and attention into.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.