Quotes by Steven Spielberg

“Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.”

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Ho...”

“When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.”

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”

“Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.”

“I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.”

“It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively co...”

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

“My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. ...”

“My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.”

“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.”

“Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.”

“My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do...”

“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.”

“My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.”

“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.”

“Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to...”