Steven Spielberg quotes

“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

“I dream for a living.”

— Steven Spielberg

“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

“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

“I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.”

— Steven Spielberg

“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

“There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.”

— Steven Spielberg

“I'm not really interested in making money.”

— Steven Spielberg

“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

“Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.”

— Steven Spielberg

“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

“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.”

— Steven Spielberg

“As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.”

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

“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.”

— Steven Spielberg

“When I grow up, I still want to be a director.”

— Steven Spielberg

“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

“From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.”

— Steven Spielberg

“I am a very impatient director.”

— Steven Spielberg

“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.”

— 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

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

— Steven Spielberg

“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.”

— Steven Spielberg

“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

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

— Steven Spielberg

“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”

— Steven Spielberg

“And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.”

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg