Steven Spielberg

“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.”

“The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.”

“I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not...”

“There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.”

“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 didn't know what he wante...”

“Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.”

“In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.”

“I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.”

“'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.”

“Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.”

“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...”

“I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.”

“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 i...”

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

“There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.”

“I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.”

“I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.”

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

“If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.”

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