476 Quotes by Steven Spielberg

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we’d have a better, more progressive world.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we’re not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

I’d rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You’ve got to have a great imagination.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.

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.

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.

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don’t like to compare my films with other movies because I don’t really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn’t intuitively come to me.

The work that I’m proudest of is the work that I’m most afraid of.