Spielberg rarely works with the same actors

The truth is...Spielberg is a technician. Process interests him. Actors just get in his way. He uses them like dolls to fill up his good looking doll house movies.

I would suspect that not many actors appreciate being looked upon as necessary evils.

In fact, if you ever noticed, being in a Spielberg film kills the careers of the female actors involved. I've often wondered why that is. But then I notice they are mostly female caricatures with awful traits that invariably affect the actors playing them.

You would think at this late stage in his life, he would be begin to let go of his misogynistic psychological hang ups. But NOPE.

Just look at all these careers that were ruined:

Goldie Hawn
Teri Garr
Melinda Dillon
Karen Allen
Dee Wallace
Miranda Richardson
Holly Hunter
Julia Roberts
Maggie Smith
Laura Dern
Embeth Davidtz
Julianne Moore
Frances 0'Connor
Samantha Morton
Amy Adams
Nathalie Baye
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Zoë Saldana
Dakota Fanning
Miranda Otto
Ayelet Zurer
Cate Blanchett
Emily Watson
Sally Field
Gloria Reuben

What are you gonna do with those pies, boys?

Goldie Hawn - Early Spielberg - she was already famous.
Teri Garr - Early Spielberg - but her career petered out.
Melinda Dillon - Early Spielberg - career burned out
Karen Allen - Mid Spielberg - Career never really panned out. Refusing to Screech for Spielberg had a factor in the reason why.
Dee Wallace - Career blowout
Miranda Richardson - British character actress. Never a star.
Holly Hunter - Another character actress. Had one big picture that was NOT Spielberg.
Julia Roberts - Flavor of the month actress. Nothing to do with a Spielberg film.
Maggie Smith - Already famous. Never made her career.
Laura Dern - She blazed out right after Jurassic.
Embeth Davidtz - WHO?
Julianne Moore - Already a star, not dependent on Spielberg.
Frances 0'Connor - He killed her career.
Samantha Morton - Career Dead GONE DEAD
Amy Adams - WHO?
Nathalie Baye - WHO?
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Killed her career with that awful Haunting remake.
Zoë Saldana - WHO?
Dakota Fanning - She will forever be that screeching kid everyone Hates.
Miranda Otto - Killed her career right off the high of LOTR. Shame.
Ayelet Zurer - WHO THE *beep* IS THIS?
Cate Blanchett - Already a star, didn't need him.
Emily Watson - already a successful Character actress, not due to him.
Sally Field - Already a star, didn't need his pictures.
Gloria Reuben - WHO?

Can't you see a pattern here? I can't believe that you don't. Established actresses have no problem pulling up after being hit with an SOS Spielberg. But newer actresses? DISASTER.

His films have always benefited male actors. Most likely because they have actual character development while the female characters are just around to scream or frown.

You mean newer actresses like Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple? Both give career best performances in Spielberg's film - their first dramatic roles - and it didn't exactly stall their progress either.

Spielberg has shown time and time again he's not that interested in working with big stars, he much prefers the lesser known character actors/actresses. That they remain lesser known character actors/actresses after working with Spielberg isn't the same thing as having their careers killed by him.

Oh, and you should probably look up Amy Adams since after appearing in Catch Me If You Can (her first major role) her career's gone from strength to strength.

And there are very few male directors who have successfully proven equally adept or interested in female characters as male ones. It's a systemic problem, not one specifically attributable to Spielberg. At least Spielberg has gone some way to examining female protagonists in his films (The Sugarland Express, The Color Purple and the upcoming BFG) - try reviewing some Kubrick or Scorsese for genuine lack of interest in female characters. On being asked if there was anyone she still wanted to work with, Meryl Streep once said "Yes, I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.” Of course, it doesn't make him any less of a director.

I've yet to find any actor have anything except great things to say about Spielberg as a director of actors. That he has coaxed so many good performances from child actors in their first roles proves just how adept he is at this part of the filmmaking process. To argue otherwise is to be wrong.

Amy Adams is not a huge star. I'm not waiting on pins and needles for her next film.

Sugarland Express was about a MAN and a woman searching for their kid. It wasn't only about Goldie Hawn's character. Sorry, you are wrong on that one.

The Color Purple. What was that? 30 to 40 years ago? No follow up to that direction at all.

Kubrick and Scorsese never consistently demeaned the female characters in their films. Scorsese always had well rounded female support characters perhaps with the exception of his recent films that include DiCaprio. Kubrick filmed Lolita with a plumb part of Shelley Winters. He also turned The Shining into a film about Shelley Duvall's Wendy. His last film had a weak female character. Maybe he didn't like Nicole Kidman or more likely the film was in the POV of a male character who thought all women revolved around him.

Spielberg is a good director for MALE children. For girls? SCREECH city. Drew Barrymore screeched in ET. The poor girl in Jurassic park did nothing but screech. The kid in War of the Worlds was so hated the whole audience wanted to climb into the picture to stop her screeching. There was no need for that except for the fact that Spielberg thinks its a laugh riot.

I'm dreading his version of Ready Player One. Because he is going to turn both strong, female characters into screechers.

I think you're looking way into this

Amy Adams - WHO?
Nathalie Baye - WHO
Zoe Saldana - WHO?
Embeth Davidtz - WHO?

...Wow, dude. You are insufferable. 

Are you like a foreigner or something? How do you not know who Amy Adams and Zoe Saldana are? Both actresses have shot up into fame since working for Spielberg. I'm not even going to bother listing their credits for you because you are sadly misinformed.

By the way: Nathalie Baye was a very successful actress during the French New Wave, and Embeth Davitz later starred in films like Matilda and Junebug (for which Amy Adams was nominated for an Oscar) after working for Spielberg.

Spielberg did not "kill" these actresses' careers. Hollywood as a system is notorious for not giving actresses as good of roles as they give to actors. That is not Spielberg's fault.

Discussions such as these often remind me of Jude Law's comments about Spielberg being far more of an actor's director than he ever anticipated him being based on the experience of making A.I.

Spielberg is hardly a cold "technician" behind the camera based on everything I have seen, heard and read, chiefly from a host of thespians who have, under his shepherding, left us with memorable and exquisitely detailed performances.