Steven Spielberg Quotes

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

Reality, Away, Far

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg

Why, Pay, Dollar

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
Steven Spielberg

May, Often, Question

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

Education, Second, Line

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
Steven Spielberg

Movies, Children, Show

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.
Steven Spielberg

Work, Time, Dad

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.
Steven Spielberg

Good, Enough, Become

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
Steven Spielberg

Love, Children, Kids

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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Science, Fiction, Cecil

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

Home, Movies, Kids

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

Sunday, Rather, Twice

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

Large, Ordinary, Forces

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.
Steven Spielberg

Government, Cannot, Fact

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg

Film, Director, Weren

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
Steven Spielberg

War, Through, Find

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
Steven Spielberg

Took, List, Historical

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
Steven Spielberg

Wrong, Production

My dad took me to my first movie.
Steven Spielberg

Dad, Movie, Took

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
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Story, Taken, Crime

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
Steven Spielberg

Another, Once, Movie

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.
Steven Spielberg

Live, Worry, Property

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.
Steven Spielberg

Time, Help, Hard

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
Steven Spielberg

Nothing, Conflict

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
Steven Spielberg

Good, Directing, Scripts

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Born: December 18, 1947

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