Steven Spielberg Quotes

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

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

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.

I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

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

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

My dad took me to my first movie.

Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.