Quotes from Steven Spielberg

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

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.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

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

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I dream for a living.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.