Quotes By 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.

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

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

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

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

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

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.

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.

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

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

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

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm not really interested in making money.

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

My dad took me to my first movie.

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

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

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.