476 Quotes by Steven Spielberg

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times...

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.