Steven Spielberg Quotes - Page 5

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

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

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.

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

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.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

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

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.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

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 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.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

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

Lincoln believed in the American people.

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something.

The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

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

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.