Be sure to read these Inspiring Steven Spielberg Quotes. Steven Allan Spielberg in Steven Spielberg born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., is an American motion-picture director and producer whose films were of a diverse genre, from science fiction to historical dramas. Steven Spielberg is the recipient of two Academy Awards for best director, a Kenndy Center honor, and a Cecil B. DeMille Award, unmistakably Spielberg is one of the most successful directors in history.
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20+ Steven Spielberg Quotes
1. Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve directed. – Steven Spielberg
2. I’m not really interested in making money that always comes as the result of success. – Steven Spielberg
3. In your defining moments, do not let your morals be swayed by convenience or expediency. Sticking to your character requires a lot of courage. – Steven Spielberg
4. I dream for a living. – Steven Spielberg
5. Inventive people have forgotten how to tell a story, stories don’t have a middle or an end anymore. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. – Steven Spielberg
6. I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. – Steven Spielberg
7. Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. – Steven Spielberg
8. Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. – Steven Spielberg
9. Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship, and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. – Steven Spielberg
10. I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians, and your own teachers. – Steven Spielberg
11. The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. – Steven Spielberg
12. Your job is to create a world that lasts forever. – Steven Spielberg
13. The love we do not show here on earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life. – Steven Spielberg
14. Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that. – Steven Spielberg
15. All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. – Steven Spielberg
16. Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them effects, but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story. – Steven Spielberg
17. If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer. – Steven Spielberg
18. Don’t turn away from what’s painful. Examine it. Challenge it. Steven Spielberg
19. Life is one strong, long string of character-defining moments. – Steven Spielberg
20. Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? – Steven Spielberg
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21. Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about. – Steven Spielberg
22. An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it’s the natural thing to do. – Steven Spielberg
23. I’d rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. – Steven Spielberg
24. Replace fear with curiosity. – Steven Spielberg
25. Sometimes a dream almost whisper it never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear. – Steven Spielberg
26. When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. – Steven Spielberg
27. 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. – Steven Spielberg
28. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make. – Steven Spielberg
29. 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. – Steven Spielberg
30. I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. – Steven Spielberg
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