Quotes By 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I am a very impatient director.

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.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

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.

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

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.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.