Steven Spielberg Quotes

Film has always been where my heart is.

I love the medium of film.

I love film, and I love short films.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to edit for the rest of my career, but it's not like that was all I did and then somehow I grew into directing a movie.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

It is my passion to direct movies.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.