Top 200 Steven Spielberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .”

— Steven Spielberg

52. “I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don’t think that’s the right way of making a decision about whether you’re going to back a film or not.”

— Steven Spielberg

53. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

54. “Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.”

— Steven Spielberg

55. “The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.”

— Steven Spielberg

56. “Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.”

— Steven Spielberg

57. “I committed to directing ‘Catch Me If You Can’ not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.”

— Steven Spielberg

58. “Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that’s what I think keeps me hungry.”

— Steven Spielberg

59. “I’m not really interested in making money. That’s always come as the result of success, but it’s not been my goal.”

— Steven Spielberg

60. “I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.”

— Steven Spielberg

61. “I turned down ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Spider-Man,’ two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don’t need my ego to be reminded.”

— Steven Spielberg

62. “Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home.”

— Steven Spielberg

63. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

64. “When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn’t permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.”

— Steven Spielberg

65. “There’s nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring ‘Schindler’s List’ to the screen.”

— Steven Spielberg

66. “I don’t drink coffee. I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That’s something you probably don’t know about me. I’ve hated the taste since I was a kid.”

— Steven Spielberg

67. “I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he’s tested and given a challenge.”

— Steven Spielberg

68. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

69. “Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”

— Steven Spielberg

70. “Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.”

— Steven Spielberg

71. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

72. “Like, I took no poetic license with ‘Schindler’s List’ because that was historical, factual documents.”

— Steven Spielberg

73. “She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”

— Steven Spielberg

74. “Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.”

— Steven Spielberg

75. “I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It’s much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.”

— Steven Spielberg

76. “When I grow up, I still want to be a director.”

— Steven Spielberg

77. “I’m not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

— Steven Spielberg

78. “Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.”

— Steven Spielberg

79. “If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer.”

— Steven Spielberg

80. “The work that I’m proudest of is the work that I’m most afraid of.”

— Steven Spielberg

81. “History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.”

— Steven Spielberg

82. “I had a great time creating the future on ‘Minority Report,’ and it’s a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.”

— Steven Spielberg

83. “I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor.”

— Steven Spielberg

84. “The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.”

— Steven Spielberg

85. “I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with ‘Avatar’ because 70 percent of that film is animated.”

— Steven Spielberg

86. “I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.”

— Steven Spielberg

87. “I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.”

— Steven Spielberg

88. “I wouldn’t have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.”

— Steven Spielberg

89. “I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.”

— Steven Spielberg

90. “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

91. “I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.”

— Steven Spielberg

92. “When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.”

— Steven Spielberg

93. “The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He’s the best boss I ever had because he’s the most talented boss I ever had.”

— Steven Spielberg

94. “I don’t make unconventional stories; I don’t make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.”

— Steven Spielberg

95. “I guess my first digital movie was ‘Tintin’ because ‘Tintin’ has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It’s 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I’m still planning to shoot everything on film.”

— Steven Spielberg

96. “I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.”

— Steven Spielberg

97. “The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.”

— Steven Spielberg

98. “The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to ‘Jurassic Park’ or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I’ve got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.”

— Steven Spielberg

99. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

100. “I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you’re working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you’re wearing or where you are.”

— Steven Spielberg