Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
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I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.
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My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
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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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I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
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In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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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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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
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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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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.
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I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
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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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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
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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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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.