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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. — Steven Spielberg

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

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director. — Peter Segal

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. — Steven Spielberg

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home — Steven Spielberg

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

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

It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. — Steven Spielberg

I am a very impatient director. — Steven Spielberg

This is reality, Greg.-Elliot from E.T. — Steven Spielberg

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. — Steven Spielberg

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

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

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened. — Steven Spielberg

It looked to her like an image out of a Steven Spielberg science fiction movie. — Stephen King

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point. — Steven Spielberg

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it. — Stephen Lang

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. — Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make. — Steven Spielberg

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? — Steven Spielberg

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

I dream for a living. — Steven Spielberg

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. — Steven Spielberg

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much. — Steven Spielberg

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

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again. — Steven Spielberg

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of. — Steven Spielberg

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. — Steven Spielberg

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

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad ... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. — Anthony Hopkins

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. — Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money. — David Geffen

The way Steven Spielberg sees the world has become the way the world is communicated back to us every day. — Stephen Schiff

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

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. — Steven Spielberg

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

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. — Steven Spielberg

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. — Steven Spielberg

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history. — Steven Spielberg

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. — Steven Spielberg

PRIOR (An awestruck whisper): God almighty.
Very Steven Spielberg. — Tony Kushner

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. — Steven Spielberg

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

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. — Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. — Steven Spielberg

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them. — Steven Spielberg

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

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it. — Roger Ebert

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination. — Steven Spielberg

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. — Steven Spielberg

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. — Steven Spielberg

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. — Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. — Steven Spielberg

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

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. — Steven Spielberg

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start. — Steven Spielberg

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. — Steven Spielberg

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! — Steven Spielberg

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

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

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. — Steven Spielberg

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that. — Steven Spielberg

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

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

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

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. — Steven Spielberg

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. — Steven Spielberg

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

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here — Steven Spielberg

You can be great just by being yourself. — Steven Spielberg

If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby. — Jason Russell

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg. — Corey Reynolds

Actors just need each other to act together. — Steven Spielberg

If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out. — Sidney Sheinberg

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important. — Steven Spielberg

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg. — Shia Labeouf

'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. — Steven Spielberg

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

Money to me is not a factor in my life. — Steven Spielberg

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. — Steven Spielberg

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

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

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. — Steven Spielberg

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg. — Shia Labeouf

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who. — Steven Spielberg

What kind of a horse?"
"A miraculous kind of horse — Steven Spielberg

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray. — Steven Spielberg

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

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me. — Steven Spielberg

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. — Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic. — Manish Dayal

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. — Steven Spielberg