Top 200 Steven Spielberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”

— Steven Spielberg

202. “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

203. “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

204. “All I have to do is pose for a picture and I’m getting married to the person standing next to me.”

— Steven Spielberg

205. “Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood – these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It’s disastrous.”

— Steven Spielberg

206. “I feel I’m all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.”

— Steven Spielberg

207. “I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”

— Steven Spielberg

208. “This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times...”

— Steven Spielberg

209. “Every movie you’re going to forget that it’s 3D whether it’s widescreen or whatever it is, you’re going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn’t work or if the movie generically doesn’t work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.”

— Steven Spielberg

210. “Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them effects, but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story.”

— Steven Spielberg

211. “Dyslexia “it is more common than you can imagine, you are not alone.”

— Steven Spielberg

212. “As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.”

— Steven Spielberg

213. “When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.”

— Steven Spielberg

214. “I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.”

— Steven Spielberg

215. “I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.”

— Steven Spielberg

216. “I can’t describe it, what I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. This means something. This is important.”

— Steven Spielberg

217. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.”

— Steven Spielberg

218. “Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.”

— Steven Spielberg

219. “When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.”

— Steven Spielberg

220. “Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.”

— Steven Spielberg

221. “Lincoln’s leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.”

— Steven Spielberg

222. “I don’t play online games. ‘Warcraft,’ I’ve played that, but I mainly play action games.”

— Steven Spielberg

223. “In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.”

— Steven Spielberg

224. “I’m always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it’s threatened.”

— Steven Spielberg

225. “The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.”

— Steven Spielberg

226. “I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.”

— Steven Spielberg

227. “Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn’t shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.”

— Steven Spielberg

228. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

229. “I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.”

— Steven Spielberg

230. “Lincoln believed in the American people.”

— Steven Spielberg

231. “Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.”

— Steven Spielberg

232. “I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

— Steven Spielberg

233. “I’ve always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.”

— Steven Spielberg

234. “Money to me is not a factor in my life.”

— Steven Spielberg

235. “Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.”

— Steven Spielberg

236. “My dad took me to my first movie.”

— Steven Spielberg

237. “I don’t do the running commentary as the movie’s playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.”

— Steven Spielberg

238. “My dad’s been responsible for a lot of my issues.”

— Steven Spielberg

239. “My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.”

— Steven Spielberg

240. “Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.”

— Steven Spielberg

241. “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.”

— Steven Spielberg

242. “For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.”

— Steven Spielberg

243. “I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it’s all one category because I’ve got to balance my family.”

— Steven Spielberg

244. “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