Quotes By Steven Spielberg

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not really interested in making money.