Steven Spielberg

“I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.”

“The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.”

“I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.”

“I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.”

“I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.”

“The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.”

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

“When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.”

“I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.”

“One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.”

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

“I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.”

“You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.”

“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”

“I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.”

“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.”

“When I grow up, I still want to be a director.”

“The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.”

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

“I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.”