Steven Spielberg

“One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.”

“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.”

“Money to me is not a factor in my life.”

“I've always been interested in UFOs.”

“I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.”

“We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.”

“History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.”

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

“I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.”

“I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.”

“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've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.”

“I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.”

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

“The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.”

“I'm not really interested in making money.”

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

“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.”

“Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.”

“I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.”