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
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
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
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
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. – Steven Spielberg
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
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we’re not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally. – 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. – Steven Spielberg
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers. – Steven Spielberg
Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed. – Steven Spielberg
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
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
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul. – Steven Spielberg
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. – Steven Spielberg
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. – Steven Spielberg
I’m always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it’s threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn’t really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. – Steven Spielberg
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
I don’t make unconventional stories; I don’t make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. – Steven Spielberg
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view. – Steven Spielberg
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
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. – Steven Spielberg
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I’m tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. – Steven Spielberg
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
I’m very used to working with first time actors – you can just look back at ‘E.T.’ with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from ‘Empire of the Sun,’ who’d never made a movie before. – Steven Spielberg
