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Quotes from Steven Spielberg

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.
~ Steven Spielberg
You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here
~ Steven Spielberg
What kind of a horse?" "A miraculous kind of horse
~ Steven Spielberg
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. But you can't get everybody to interpret the result in the same Way. And that's thrilling to know – that everybody will see it differently.
~ Steven Spielberg
He never gave up. And he does that for us
~ Steven Spielberg
This is reality, Greg.-Elliot from E.T.
~ Steven Spielberg
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.
~ Steven Spielberg
My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
~ Steven Spielberg
Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?' Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how he looked to her---a yelling machine. And she was prepared to accept more yelling because she loved him.
~ Steven Spielberg
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.
~ Steven Spielberg
Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.
~ Steven Spielberg
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.
~ Steven Spielberg
Dyslexia "it is more common than you can imagine, you are not alone
~ Steven Spielberg
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Steven Spielberg
~ Steven Spielberg
I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.
~ Steven Spielberg
I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.
~ Steven Spielberg
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
~ Steven Spielberg
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
~ Steven Spielberg
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
~ Steven Spielberg
I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
~ Steven Spielberg
Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home
~ Steven Spielberg
He never gave up. And he does that for us
~ Steven Spielberg
You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here
~ Steven Spielberg
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
~ Steven Spielberg