Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not really interested in making money.

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

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

My dad took me to my first movie.

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

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

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.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

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

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

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.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

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.

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.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

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.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

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.

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.

I dream for a living.

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

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.

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

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.