Steven gave me the most amazing note, actually. He said, give me your war face, and the camera’s gonna move across. And as you feel it come up in front of you, I want you to de-age yourself by 20 years. So you’re 29, and then when you see those machine guns, you’re nine years old. I want to see the child in you. And I just thought that was one of the most astonishing acting notes I’d ever been given.
- Tom Hiddleston
sound-and-picture-moving-in-time:
On-Set Footage of Steven Spielberg directing JURASSIC PARK.
I particularly like the parts where he’s talking to Dean Cundey, the D.P. and where he’s blocking the actors.
April 14th
17:13
17:13
"I called [Spielberg] immediately when I had this idea of doing a film about being a kid making movies on Super 8 film, and luckily he said he was interested in working on it with me. I didn’t even realize at the time that one of the reasons I called him so quickly was because that period of time in my life was so profoundly influenced by the movies of that era, many of which were his. By having Steven as a producer on this film, I was able to sort of unabashedly dive in to that pool and say, “Look. This is an Amblin movie.” The feeling is one of infinite possibility, parent-child relationships, child empowerment. They never felt sadistic or dark or overly creepy. There are scary elements in those films, and certainly in Super 8, but the Amblin films always felt like you were in good hands, and that there was a big heart."
— J.J. Abrams talks about the autobiographical aspects of Super 8 and what made Spielberg’s early films so wonderful on All Things Considered (via kavalierandclay)
“The rope would go through the shiv, and it would pull the barrel toward the Orca, as if the shark was heading toward the Orca. The problem was, the motorboat went so fast, it pulled the shiv and the planking out from the hull of the Orca and, of course, the water rushed in.”
February 22nd
18:33
18:33
![“We all referred to Verna Fields [editor of Jaws] as Mother Cutter. She was very earthy, very maternal. She cut her films at her house, at her pool house, in the San Fernando Valley, and it was a very haimish kind of workplace..All of our disagreements happened with that darn shark! Verna was always in favor of less to be more. And I was trying to squeeze in that one more—because it took me DAYS to get that one shot! So I’m going back to, I’m on a barge for two days trying to get the shark to look real, and the sad fact was that the shark would only look real in 36 frames and not 38 frames. And that 2 frame difference was the difference between something really scary, and something that looked like a great white floating turd.” - Steven Spielberg.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh1tsgU1iT1qztqsao1_500.png)
“We all referred to Verna Fields [editor of Jaws] as Mother Cutter. She was very earthy, very maternal. She cut her films at her house, at her pool house, in the San Fernando Valley, and it was a very haimish kind of workplace..All of our disagreements happened with that darn shark! Verna was always in favor of less to be more. And I was trying to squeeze in that one more—because it took me DAYS to get that one shot! So I’m going back to, I’m on a barge for two days trying to get the shark to look real, and the sad fact was that the shark would only look real in 36 frames and not 38 frames. And that 2 frame difference was the difference between something really scary, and something that looked like a great white floating turd.” - Steven Spielberg.
December 18th
18:26
18:26
Steven Spielberg with Haley Joel Osment on A.I. (2001)
18:23
Steven Spielberg with Christian Bale on Empire of the Sun (1987)
18:21
Steven Spielberg is 64 today.
Letter from Steven Spielberg to Georgie Porgie to congratulate him for surpassing Jaws at the box office.
