Steven Spielberg

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

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

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.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

I'm not really interested in making money.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

I think all directors should be animators.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.