Quotes By Steven Spielberg

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.