Steven Spielberg Quotes
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Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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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.
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I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
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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.
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I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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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.
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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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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.
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.