Quotes by Steven Spielberg

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesnt often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

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.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Lincolns leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

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.

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

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

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.

It is not my job to compare my movies. I dont like to compare my films with other movies because I dont really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesnt intuitively come to me.

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

My problem is that my imagination wont turn off. I wake up so excited I cant eat breakfast. Ive never run out of energy. Its not like OPEC oil I dont worry about a premium going on my energy. Its just always been there. I got it from my mom.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

In 83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didnt know what he wanted to do. He wouldnt tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I dont know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

My dads been responsible for a lot of my issues.

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