Steven Spielberg Quotes

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.

As a viewer, I will go and watch only commercial films.

Regardless of what film you make, you want people to watch your film, and you ultimately need commercial success.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.