Steven Spielberg Quotes

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

I think all directors should be animators.

I am a very impatient director.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

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

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

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

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

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.

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

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 don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.

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.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

I'm not really interested in making money.