Steven Spielberg Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Steven Spielberg on Wise Famous Quotes.
I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
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.
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.
An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.
I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
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.
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.
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
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.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
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 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.
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
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 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 can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
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.
'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.
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 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.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.