Quotes from Steven Spielberg

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

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.

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.

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

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.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.