Movie Quotes by Steven Spielberg

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

— Steven Spielberg

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

My dad took me to my first movie.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

— Steven Spielberg

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone…

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great…

— Steven Spielberg

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

— Steven Spielberg

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through…

— Steven Spielberg

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12…

— Steven Spielberg

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do -…

— 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…

— Steven Spielberg

3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach…

— Steven Spielberg

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening…

— Steven Spielberg

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film…

— Steven Spielberg

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter…

— Steven Spielberg

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by…

— Steven Spielberg

I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I…

— Steven Spielberg

All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world…

— Steven Spielberg

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to…

— Steven Spielberg

I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since…

— Steven Spielberg

Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if…

— Steven Spielberg

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings…

— Steven Spielberg

Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five…

— Steven Spielberg

3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing…

— Steven Spielberg

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

— Steven Spielberg

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it…

— Steven Spielberg

If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part…

— Steven Spielberg

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start…

— Steven Spielberg

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished,…

— Steven Spielberg

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you…

— Steven Spielberg

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't…

— Steven Spielberg