30 Best Steven Spielberg Quotes

The dream is the most important ingredient. Without the dream, there is no will to succeed. – Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. – Steven Spielberg

I don't make movies to make money; I make money to make more movies. – Steven Spielberg

You should never get too comfortable with who you are because you are always evolving. – Steven Spielberg

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. – Steven Spielberg

The only thing that really changes people is a brush with death. – Steven Spielberg

I think people are able to retain a lot more of their childhood than they think they are. All of us are, to some degree, little boys and girls. – Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living. – Steven Spielberg

The best inventions happen when people are playing. – Steven Spielberg

The scary thing is, what if you do this movie about a shark and nobody comes? That was my biggest fear. – Steven Spielberg

I am a director, and I have to be able to visualize the story, not just intellectually understand it. – Steven Spielberg

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, regardless of where they see it, brings a unique set of life experiences to that viewing. – Steven Spielberg

Sometimes a dream almost whispers. It never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear. – Steven Spielberg

The function of memory is not just to remember the past, but to fuel the imagination for the future. – Steven Spielberg

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal, and I've had a tough time proving that to people. – Steven Spielberg

You have to know what you're doing, but you also have to be open to the happy accident. – Steven Spielberg

I think there is a child in all of us, and we are all a little bit Peter Pan. – Steven Spielberg

The world is full of stories, and from time to time, they permit themselves to be told. – Steven Spielberg

I grew up in a family where, if you fell down, you got right back up. You didn't wait for anyone to pick you up. – Steven Spielberg

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful. – Steven Spielberg

I like to use the camera as a pen. – Steven Spielberg

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Steven Spielberg

I've never made a film that I didn't learn something from. – Steven Spielberg

I think the audience is the final collaborator. – Steven Spielberg

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar as a bookmark? – Steven Spielberg

I'm not a politician. I'm a filmmaker. My job is to hold a mirror up to the world, not to change it. – Steven Spielberg

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination. – Steven Spielberg

I try to make movies for myself, but I also make them for the audience. It's a very delicate balance. – Steven Spielberg

Fear is the fuel for the storyteller. – Steven Spielberg

I don't think there's any science to being a good storyteller. I think it's an instinct. – Steven Spielberg