476 Quotes by Steven Spielberg

I quit college so fast I didn’t even clean out my locker.

I’m always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it’s threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn’t really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there’s film going through the camera.

I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you’re working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you’re wearing or where you are.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It’s much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

My head’s not in the clouds, but I think I’ve gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick’s vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it’s a legacy.

I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don’t censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room. I shoot needless footage and then don’t use it later on in the process.

I don’t think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it’s certainly worth a try.