Quotes from Steven Spielberg

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

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.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Lincoln believed in the American people.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

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.

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

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.

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

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

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

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.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

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 .