3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as ‘The Pacific’.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg You know, I don’t really do that much looking inside me when I’m working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn’t often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.