476 Quotes by Steven Spielberg

I don’t do the running commentary as the movie’s playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

I love Rambo but I think it’s potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

If movies generically don’t work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You’ll only want to have a god time.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I’m going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That’s what I would really like to do when I grow up.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don’t go outside after they’re over.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who’s never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don’t look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

I’ve discovered I’ve got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

The bones of the story of ‘War Horse’ is a love story. That’s what makes it universal.

I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I’ll never make enough films to purge them all.