Steven Spielberg

Because television doesn’t offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you’ve got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Steven Spielberg

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood – these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It’s disastrous.

Steven Spielberg

E.T.’ began with me trying to write a story about my parents’ divorce.

Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about.

Steven Spielberg

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Steven Spielberg

For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Steven Spielberg

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That’s my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

Steven Spielberg

I am a very impatient director.

Steven Spielberg

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.

Steven Spielberg