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.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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.
I dream for a living.
I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
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.
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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.
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
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 not really interested in making money.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
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.
Not that I am so articulate about who I am, vis-a-vis any of my movies that I can give you a real solid answer to that question, except to say that, you know, I learn about myself through my own movies, but years after I make them. I look back and I say, oh, that's the kind of guy I was in 2002.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
Well David Koepp is a great closer. And he's done some great projects for me, you know all of them. And I feel that if anybody can do it and pull this together, David can.
When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
English director David Lean originally wanted to direct Empire of the Sun (1987), but passed it onto Steven Spielberg, because of advancing years.
Steven Spielberg joined the long list of celebrities lampooned by South Park. It happened in South Park episode 88 entitled Free Hat.
Jean-Luc Godard holds Spielberg responsible for the lack of artistic merit in mainstream cinema.
Spielberg purchased the Rosebud sled used in Orson Welles’ 1941 film Citizen Kane for $50,000.
Steven divorced Amy Irving in 1989.
Spielberg married Kate Capshaw on October 12th 1991.
Sidney Sheinberg is credited with discovering Steven.
His own production company is called Amblin Entertainment.
He's directed films such as Schindlers List, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.
Steven is a four time Academy Award winning American film director.
He's received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
He is a Member of Theta Chi Fraternity, Zeta Epsilon Chapter.
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