Quotes By Steven Spielberg

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.

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 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'.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I dream for a living.

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.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

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

I'm not really interested in making money.

My dad took me to my first movie.

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.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.