26 Quotes By Steven Spielberg


I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Steven Spielberg on art

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
Steven Spielberg on change

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
Steven Spielberg on dad

My dad took me to my first movie.
Steven Spielberg on dad

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Steven Spielberg on dreams

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
Steven Spielberg on education

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
Steven Spielberg on failure

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
Steven Spielberg on family

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Steven Spielberg on government

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
Steven Spielberg on history

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
Steven Spielberg on home

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg on imagination

I'm not really interested in making money.
Steven Spielberg on money

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg on movies

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
Steven Spielberg on movies

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
Steven Spielberg on movies

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Steven Spielberg on science

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg on smile

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
Steven Spielberg on success

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
Steven Spielberg on war