Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
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If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
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Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.
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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
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A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.
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Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
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For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
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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.
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I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we've given them a voice.
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Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
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Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
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The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
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When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
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My dad took me to my first movie.
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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
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You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.