The 31 best quotes by Steven Spielberg, a unique filmmaker.

We discover the best famous quotes of an essential film director.

Steven Spielberg (Cincinnati, 1946) is an American-born film director, screenwriter and producer. His cinematographic work is absolutely essential to understand cinema in the 20th and 21st century.

An idol of the masses in Hollywood, popular culture has a privileged place for Spielberg. Films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones saga or Schindler's List are part of the cultural heritage of any cinephile.

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The best famous quotes by Steven Spielberg

To review the career and thoughts of this phenomenal director, we have compiled the best quotes by Steven Spielberg.. He will talk to us about life, about friendship and, above all, about the seventh art.

1. I love the smell of movies.

A peculiar way of approaching the emotions that cinema gives off.

2. Every time I see a movie in the theater it is magical, no matter what the plot is.

In this sentence, Spielberg tells us about his unconditional love for everything that surrounds the seventh art.

3. I don't think any person in any war in the world sees himself as a hero.

An avowed pacifist, Spielberg has opposed all U.S. imperialist wars.

4. All of us are a different person every year. I don't believe that we remain the same person all our lives.

Change is the only permanent thing, as Heraclitus himself could affirm.

5. People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories no longer have a knot and a denouement, but a beginning that never ends and never begins.

A famous quote that explores the vital narrative.

6. We have plenty of time ahead of us to create the dreams we haven't even imagined dreaming yet.

A phrase of an inveterate dreamer; absolutely necessary to build science fiction films with the clairvoyance of Spielberg.

7. In desperate times, desperate measures must be taken.

Phrase recurrently used in political contexts.

8. People have to look beyond television or the press. And ponder whether a leader speaks from the Heart and fights for his or her own beliefs or merely transmits the ideas of others.

On the ability to perceive true leadership.

9. Nothing I do as a filmmaker is motivated by awards. (...) It may seem like awards are the icing on the cake, but for most of us the icing is just getting the job done.

A self-respecting filmmaker should not have any kind of recognition in mind.

10. It makes no sense that my country trades with North Korea and China and not with Cuba.

On the double standards in the economic and trade policy of the United States, his native country.

11. War destroys the intellect. When that happens, everything is reduced to reaction, and the person discovers more quickly who he really is.

The misery of war and its effects on the lives of the victims.

12. Humor is important in politics, as in all aspects of life.

In fact, in almost all of your feature films humor plays a major role.

13. You know, I don't really look inside myself when I'm working on a project. Everything I am becomes what the film is. But I can change; you change.

The mutability through the needs of each storyline.

14. Many of my films are about the way I want the world to be, and that is part of my art, which is ultimately an interpretative art.

Utopia and how to move towards it with a firm step.

15. I dream in order to live.

One of Steven Spielberg's most beautiful and memorable phrases.

16. We have plenty of time ahead of us to create the dreams we have not even imagined to dream.

Time, infinite and impassive, waits for us to take part in the realization of our dreams.

17. Hope for the best. There would be no progress if we think the glass is half empty and fear the worst. That has always been my philosophy: I am an optimist.

An optimistic phrase if ever there was one.

18. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve years old, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

About his intrepid beginnings in the world of cinema.

19. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I face a new subject. But it's hard, because everyone has style. I can't help it.

Aesthetic vices and manias always remain there.

20. Most of my assumptions about a production are usually wrong.

When approaching a new project, most preconceived ideas end up coming crashing down on reality.

21. Popular movements are very important because they give voice to problems, and the people want representatives who voice their problems. In fact, America was created through a popular movement, which came from the bottom up.

A reflection of Steven Spielberg on social and political movements.

22. I'm not very interested in making money.

Despite this sentence, Spielberg is one of the directors who have made the most money in his professional career.

23. One of my daughters is a competitive horse jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I watch, and I care.

A lovely phrase about loving your daughters.

24. I didn't take any poetic license with 'Schindler's List', because that was a historical document, in fact.

About the rawness of the film.

25. If I were not a director, I would want to be a film composer.

With this nice phrase, Steven Spielberg gives us to understand that his passion is cinema.

26. I interviewed survivors, went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and talked to Jews who had returned to Poland after the war and talked about why they came back.

About the making of Schindler's List.

27. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, like 'The Pacific'.

Another of his films with a great dramatic component.

28. There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

In turbulent times, it is difficult to discern between freedom of expression and responsibility in one's own words or actions.

29. Many of the films I have made would probably have worked just as well 50 years ago, which is precisely why I have a lot of old-school values.

His work is certainly timeless and imperishable.

30. My father took me to my first movie.

Reminiscing about his tender childhood with the person who discovered his passion.

31. When war comes, two things happen - profits rise far above all perishables. This becomes a market for them.

About the real cause of most war conflicts.