Steven Spielberg Quotes
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
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.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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 don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
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.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
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.
