All through my career I’ve done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
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
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
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
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents – who we haven’t given enough credit to anyway – for giving us another generation.
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
Even if I’d had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I’ve made.
Steven Spielberg
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.
Steven Spielberg
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 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.
Steven Spielberg
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
Steven Spielberg
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.
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
My dad’s been responsible for a lot of my issues.
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 presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
Steven Spielberg
I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go – ethical, moral limiters.
Steven Spielberg
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg
Actors just need each other to act together.
Steven Spielberg
History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.
Steven Spielberg
I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That’s my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
Steven Spielberg
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.
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
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
I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
Steven Spielberg
If the movie does well, or it doesn’t do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don’t… that’s just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn’t ever stop me.
Steven Spielberg
I’m certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.
Steven Spielberg
It’s funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you’re making a movie.
Steven Spielberg
I’ve learned there are a lot of people that don’t want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn’t fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we’ve given them a voice.
Steven Spielberg
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.
Steven Spielberg
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.
Steven Spielberg
The 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.
Steven Spielberg
The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.
Steven Spielberg
Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don’t go outside after they’re over.
Steven Spielberg
You can be great just by being yourself.
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
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It’s A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
Steven Spielberg
Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about.
Steven Spielberg
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
Steven Spielberg
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there’s film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don’t think that’s the right way of making a decision about whether you’re going to back a film or not.
Steven Spielberg
If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg
It starts with the writer-it’s a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.
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
The only time I’m totally happy is when I’m watching films or making them.
Steven Spielberg
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
Steven Spielberg
Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.
Steven Spielberg
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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
You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!
Steven Spielberg