Steven Spielberg Quotes
- All Quotes
-
I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.
-
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
-
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
-
Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.
-
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
-
There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.
-
The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
-
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.
-
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
-
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
-
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
-
I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.
-
I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
-
Money to me is not a factor in my life.
-
I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.
-
I think all directors should be animators.
-
The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.
-
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
-
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
-
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.
-
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.
-
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
-
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.
-
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.