'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of vi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
STEVEN SPIELBERG So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because every...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come...
STEVEN SPIELBERG This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
STEVEN SPIELBERG I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural b...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, su...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of vie...
STEVEN SPIELBERG When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
STEVEN SPIELBERG You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You h...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wante...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in op...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
STEVEN SPIELBERG You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
STEVEN SPIELBERG There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
STEVEN SPIELBERG All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same pers...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
STEVEN SPIELBERG When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less ab...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute bus...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't gi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest you...
STEVEN SPIELBERG When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h...
STEVEN SPIELBERG In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I beco...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often lo...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people a...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives....
STEVEN SPIELBERG Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, fact...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids g...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelli...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and g...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
STEVEN SPIELBERG There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to in...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies becaus...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' wh...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytel...
STEVEN SPIELBERG If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of...
STEVEN SPIELBERG A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just b...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
STEVEN SPIELBERG We don't demonize our targets. They're individuals. They have families. Although what happened in Mu...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations...
STEVEN SPIELBERG All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
STEVEN SPIELBERG My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It would make people more comfortable if I made a film that said all targeted assassination is bad, ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call mysel...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the rin...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I dream for a living.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkwar...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Yo...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in t...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
STEVEN SPIELBERG This opportunity ... allows all of us to reach out directly to open a much wider door.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
STEVEN SPIELBERG You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It's great being honored by critic organizations, because so often they dishonor you with bad review...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My film refuses to be a pamphlet. My screenwriter, Tony Kushner, and I were hoping to make it a visc...
STEVEN SPIELBERG War of the Worlds
STEVEN SPIELBERG Viewing Israel's response to Munich through the eyes of the men who were sent to avenge that tragedy...
STEVEN SPIELBERG If he picks the right roles and doesn't forget the theater, I think he can eventually be Alec Guinne...
STEVEN SPIELBERG All of us know that the survivors and witnesses have given us a precious gift whose wise use will bu...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual...
STEVEN SPIELBERG was looking forward to working closely with the team in Los Angeles.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I expected to see a party animal who was going to reap harvest with all the girls on the set. I foun...
STEVEN SPIELBERG INTO THE WEST takes place during one of the single most dramatic periods in American history. We're ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of...
STEVEN SPIELBERG [? The new take: Although the] Transformers ... (The movie) is going to be really steeped in traditi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I felt, for the first time in my career, that I was directing a stage production more than a motion ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG These movies are asking sensitive questions about racial intolerance and Middle East politics. It's ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
STEVEN SPIELBERG The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be pheno...
STEVEN SPIELBERG There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonh...
STEVEN SPIELBERG When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but pri...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
STEVEN SPIELBERG My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of su...
STEVEN SPIELBERG There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny...
STEVEN SPIELBERG What kind of a horse?"
"A miraculous kind of horse
STEVEN SPIELBERG I will never make a movie about any of the events of 9/11.
STEVEN SPIELBERG It's for people who can't market their own pieces, but who are still legitimate artists, musicians a...
GREG T. SPIELBERG Sometimes people put too much meaning into things. Liking something for pure aesthetics can be great...
GREG T. SPIELBERG We want No. 2 Pencil to be informative and provocative.
GREG T. SPIELBERG We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT