Steven Spielberg Quotes
20 quotes from Steven Spielberg — Film director who created Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, and many more..
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”
“I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.”
“Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.”
“All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.”
“I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
“You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!”
“I dream for a living.”
“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”
“I'm a storyteller. I hate the word 'director.”
“You cannot start with the end. You have to go there.”
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
“The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.”
“Making this movie — $40 million of therapy — and turning my story into a motion picture is never going to help me assuage my guilt about how I separated emotionally from my dad for all those years.”
“I made Schindler's List thinking that if it did entertain, then I would have failed. It was important to me not to set out to please. Because I always had.”
“My job is to create a world that lasts two hours. Your job is to create a world that lasts forever.”
“I was beyond self-respect. I was into putting on a great show and sitting back and enjoying the audience participation. I felt more like P. T. Barnum than John Ford, for a lot of my career. And I wasn't ashamed of that.”
“For the first 25 years of our lives, we are trained to listen to voices that are not our own. Parents and professors fill our heads with wisdom and information, and then employers and mentors take their place and explain how this world really works.”
“I was a fearful kid, and my parents didn't quite know what to do with that 'cause my mom was fearless and my dad was extremely stoic about things like this. And no amount of bedside chats could calm me down once the sun set.”
“I just wanted to tell the truth, and I didn't think anyone would see that film.”
“The worse the world gets, the more magic we have to believe in. Hope comes from magic and I think that's what movies can give people.”
