Top 200 Steven Spielberg Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It starts with the writer-it’s a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.”

— Steven Spielberg

152. “I simply adore ‘The Simpsons.’ I go to bed in a ‘Simpsons’ T-shirt.”

— Steven Spielberg

153. “Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.”

— Steven Spielberg

154. “Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.”

— Steven Spielberg

155. “Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won’t know each other unless they bring friends along.”

— Steven Spielberg

156. “I’ve always been interested in UFOs.”

— Steven Spielberg

157. “The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.”

— Steven Spielberg

158. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

159. “People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.”

— Steven Spielberg

160. “I’d love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I’d like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.”

— Steven Spielberg

161. “My head’s not in the clouds, but I think I’ve gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.”

— Steven Spielberg

162. “There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.”

— Steven Spielberg

163. “I even get inspired by movies that aren’t very good, because there’s always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There’s good in everything, I find.”

— Steven Spielberg

164. “We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there’s nothing wrong with seeing if there’s a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that’s a little bit daft and edgy to life.”

— Steven Spielberg

165. “I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.”

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

167. “I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I’ll never make enough films to purge them all.”

— Steven Spielberg

168. “When I don’t have a story to tell, I’m a terror to live with.”

— Steven Spielberg

169. “3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn’t for everybody.”

— Steven Spielberg

170. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

171. “The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.”

— Steven Spielberg

172. “I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.”

— Steven Spielberg

173. “I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.”

— Steven Spielberg

174. “Actors just need each other to act together.”

— Steven Spielberg

175. “Because of how much movies cost, it’s dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.”

— Steven Spielberg

176. “I have a choice – I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can’t do both.”

— Steven Spielberg

177. “I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That’s my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.”

— Steven Spielberg

178. “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

179. “I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.”

— Steven Spielberg

180. “The bones of the story of ‘War Horse’ is a love story. That’s what makes it universal.”

— Steven Spielberg

181. “History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.”

— Steven Spielberg

182. “Because television doesn’t offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you’ve got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.”

— Steven Spielberg

183. “Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don’t go outside after they’re over.”

— Steven Spielberg

184. “I’m certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.”

— Steven Spielberg

185. “I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go – ethical, moral limiters.”

— Steven Spielberg

186. “Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.”

— Steven Spielberg

187. “I’m not a great man to my children. I’m just ‘Pop.’ The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.”

— Steven Spielberg

188. “I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.”

— Steven Spielberg

189. “There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul.”

— Steven Spielberg

190. “I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it’s really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.”

— Steven Spielberg

191. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

192. “I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.”

— Steven Spielberg

193. “I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I’m not sure I’d want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.”

— Steven Spielberg

194. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

195. “For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.”

— Steven Spielberg

196. “The only time I’m totally happy is when I’m watching films or making them.”

— Steven Spielberg

197. “If movies generically don’t work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You’ll only want to have a god time.”

— Steven Spielberg

198. “I’ve discovered I’ve got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.”

— Steven Spielberg

199. “People have forgotten how to tell a story.”

— Steven Spielberg

200. “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