Quotes from Steven Spielberg

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

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.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

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

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

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

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

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