TSPDT - Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

See Also

Jack Arnold

Joe Dante

John Carpenter

Cecil B. De Mille

Richard Donner

Irvin Kershner

Stanley Kubrick

George Lucas

George Miller

Martin Ritt

Ridley Scott

Robert Zemeckis

Director / Producer / Screenwriter

1946 -

Born December 18, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Key Production Country: USA

Key Genres: Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Sci-Fi Action, Chase Movie, War, Action, Period Film, Costume Adventure

Key Collaborators: John Williams (Composer), Michael Kahn (Editor), Kathleen Kennedy (Producer), Janusz Kaminski (Cinematographer), Gerald R. Molen (Producer), Frank Marshall (Producer), Rick Carter (Production Designer), Colin Wilson (Producer), Harrison Ford (Leading Player), David Koepp (Screenwriter)

Highly Recommended: Duel (1971), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Recommended: Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982), Catch Me if You Can (2002)

Worth a Look: The Sugarland Express (1974), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Amistad (1997), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005), Munich (2005)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Spielberg Films.Com ] [ Tiscali Biography ] [ Time Feature ] [ DGA Interview ] [ Inside Film Magazine Interview: Schindler's List ] [ BBC Audio Interviews (1984) ] [ The Steven Spielberg Directory ] [ Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive ] [ The Steven Spielberg Fanlisting ] [ Spero News Article (2006) ]

Books: [ Steven Spielberg: Interviews ] [ Steven Spielberg: A Biography ] [ Spielberg: The Man, The Movies, The Mythology ] [ Steven Spielberg: Crazy for Movies ] [ Steven Spielberg ] [ Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster ] [ The Films of Steven Spielberg ] [ Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Filmmaker ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

1,000 Greatest Films: Duel (1971), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982), Schindler's List (1993)

21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), Munich (2005)


	"As America in the 1990s moves slowly away from the Reagan era, will Spielberg find new materials and adult themes, or will he seek continuing refuge in tried and true formulas? And will those formulas continue to work? And finally, will Spielberg manage to successfully mediate his apparent dual interests - being a modern day mogul in the style of Walt Disney or Cecil B. De Mille as well as being a respected artist whose work requires no apology?" - Charles Derry (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)

	"In bringing a distinctly personal sensibility to the traditional genres of mass entertainment, Steven Spielberg rapidly became the most commercially successful director in cinema history. While it is impossible to deny either his Midas touch or his extraordinary technical proficiency, it has nonetheless become increasingly clear in recent years that he is perhaps more at home with sentimental 'family' fodder than with more sophisticated material." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)

	"One of the most famous Hollywood directors, Steven Spielberg has an intuitive sense of the hopes and fears of his audience. This quality and his showmanship have made him one of the greats, in the league of Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Capra, and Alfred Hitchcock." - Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006)

	"One of the things Henry Hathaway told me is that you just have to know what you're doing every single minute of the day. His advice was: even if you don't know what the hell you're doing, pretend you do." - Steven Spielberg (Directing the Film, 1976)

	"A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values." - Steven Spielberg