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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am a very impatient director.

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.

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.

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

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

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.