Famous quotes by Steven Spielberg:

"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government."

"I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring [knighthood]."

"All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me."

"A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values."

"I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces."

"I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . ."

"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives."

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

"I dream for a living."

"Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?"

"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."

"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know."

"Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make."

"Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view."

"I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid."

"I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today."

"Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents."

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

"The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts."

"Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'."