Steven Spielberg Quotes

The most amazing adventure is the one waiting for you at the movies. – Steven Spielberg

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. – Steven Spielberg

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. – Steven Spielberg

The older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury in life is time. – Steven Spielberg

The thing about filmmaking is I give it everything, that’s why I work so hard. – Steven Spielberg

I find that the most interesting characters are the ones that are unpredictable. – Steven Spielberg

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. – Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. – Steven Spielberg

When you listen, you learn; when you talk, you don’t. – Steven Spielberg

It doesn’t matter how old you are. You’re only as old as you think you are. – Steven Spielberg

The only thing that gets me back to my computer is seeing something I can’t do. – Steven Spielberg

You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it! – Steven Spielberg

You know, my philosophy is that most directors that I know don’t really have a style. – Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg Quotes part 2

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie brings a whole set of unique experiences. – Steven Spielberg

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself… I can only hope for the best and expect the worst. – Steven Spielberg

I think it’s only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can squeeze a holiday out of it. – Steven Spielberg

I would rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. – Steven Spielberg

Subliminally, I don’t think I would shoot a movie in 3D. I want the audience to forget about that stuff. – Steven Spielberg

God gives you one face, and you paint another on top of it. – Steven Spielberg

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen. – Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end anymore. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. – Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about. – 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

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

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. – Steven Spielberg

Some people need to see the movie before they can visualize it. – Steven Spielberg

The art of storytelling is dying in the mainstream because the stories aren’t good. – Steven Spielberg

A lot of directors don’t want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it. – 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’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. – Steven Spielberg

E.T. was a healing picture; it was a perfect picture for anyone who needed to remember to be a child. – Steven Spielberg

I don’t know what it is about me that makes people think I’m controversial. – Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to relate or respond; they don’t know how to hear each other. – Steven Spielberg

One thing I know about my movies is that they’re meant to be useful in some way, to help them become more beautiful, more intelligible, more meaningful. – Steven Spielberg

As a filmmaker, I’m not a pacifist, but I can’t help but be anti-war. – Steven Spielberg

Heroes have a tough job throughout history trying to strike a balance between being admired and being disliked. – Steven Spielberg

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. – 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. – Steven Spielberg

The whole point of movies is to get people to feel, and show me a scene in any movie that can be more upsetting than the turbulent scene between father and son in To Kill a Mockingbird. – Steven Spielberg

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends’ lives. – Steven Spielberg

Movies are like magic tricks made out of iron, and I like to think of myself as a magician. – Steven Spielberg

I’m not a dreamer, and I’m not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I feel this groundwork is being laid for some future generation. – Steven Spielberg

I’m still like a kid and I love almost every minute of it. – 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. – Steven Spielberg

I want to make movies that aren’t just for women. I don’t know any woman who isn’t a feminist, and I think feminism is misunderstood. I’m all about empowering women. – Steven Spielberg