Steven Spielberg

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

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

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

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

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

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.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

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