Top 219 Spielberg Quotes & Sayings

Steven Spielberg films were huge touchstones for us growing up.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

I consumed Spielberg movies when I was little.

Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes.

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.

I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. 'E.T.' was big for me.

I'm the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

You've got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy's an apparition.

What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

There's a lot of directors I'd still love to work with - one of them is Spielberg, because he kind of started my career, and I've not worked with him yet.

Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

The first 'Gremlins' was PG because I think it was before Spielberg scarred people with 'Temple of Doom.'

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

I had Steven Spielberg on my radio show.

'Ready Player One' is an actor's dream, so - I mean, to work with Spielberg is - everything.

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.

I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who loves a good laugh. Both sides are sincere, and both are necessary, for Spielberg knows he can't feel good about himself unless everyone else feels the same way.

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.

I feel that 'Rudraksh' is Mani Shankar's answer to Steven Spielberg.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.

I don't think 'Jurassic Park' could have been so much fun had Spielberg not made a 'Schindler's List.'

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.

There is no such thing as too much rehearsal. When Daniel Day-Lewis told Steven Spielberg he needed a year for 'Lincoln,' I understand that.

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

I was working with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg when I was nine years old.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.

Steven Spielberg is a talented, wonderful filmmaker.

I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother's womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg's response was "Why don't you just act."

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Steven Spielberg is a big name in the Hollywood Industry and to be associated with a film that he has made is truly an honor for me.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.