Steven Spielberg
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.
Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
Money to me is not a factor in my life.
I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.Collection: Ideas
You can be great just by being yourself.Collection: Being Yourself
I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.Collection: Dream
Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.Collection: Inevitable
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.Collection: Art
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.Collection: Parent
It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.Collection: Mistake
The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.Collection: Hurt
When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.Collection: Trying
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.Collection: Directors
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.Collection: Film
Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.Collection: Ideas
There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'Collection: Saving Private Ryan
I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.Collection: Jobs
I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.Collection: Choices
I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.Collection: Jobs
I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.Collection: Kissing
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.Collection: Wake Up
I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .Collection: Real
All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.Collection: Next
Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.Collection: Believe
I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'Collection: Running
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.Collection: Past
The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.Collection: Doctors
I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.Collection: Party
With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.Collection: Fun
You're not alone, are you? Because I'm hereCollection: War Horse
I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.Collection: Cameras
I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.Collection: Decision
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.Collection: Imagination
I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It's a biblical term, it's important, and it's embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.Collection: Love You
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.Collection: War
My dad took me to my first movie.Collection: Movie