Steven Spielberg Quotes

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

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• All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Career
  • Talent
  • Discover

• The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Balance
  • Create
  • Themselves

• You can be great just by being yourself.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Being Yourself

• I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • War
  • Hero

• Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Imagination
  • Limitations
  • Science fiction

• I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Imagination
  • Acting
  • Secret

• You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Intellectually Purge

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

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Imagination
  • Public
  • Appetite

• My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Clouds
  • Credit
  • Businessman

• We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Idea
  • Writer
  • Network

• When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Terror
  • Live With

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

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Scripts
  • Directing

• There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Strange
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Pigeonhole

• 3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Change
  • Camera
  • 3D

• Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Life
  • Job
  • Kids

• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Jurassic Park
  • Leviathans
  • Creature features

• When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Germany

• 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.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Israel
  • Defender
  • Moral values

• I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Camera
  • Frame literally

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

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Destiny
  • Talent
  • Skill

• Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Hungry
  • Keeps

• Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Audience
  • Alert
  • Sci-Fi

• All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • President
  • Constitution
  • Swear

• I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Result