I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
I’m 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I’ll never make enough films to purge them all.
Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn’t shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.
All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
I’d love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I’d like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.
You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
All through my career I’ve done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
I hate that people think it’s wrong to say you’re inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You’re allowed to be.
I’m certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.
I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.
I’ll probably never win an Oscar, but I’ll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.
I wouldn’t have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
I’m very collaborative with everybody on the set.
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
I feel I’m all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won’t know each other unless they bring friends along.
The thing that I’m just scared to death of is that someday I’m going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.