Quotes from Steven Spielberg

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

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

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

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

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.