Steven Spielberg Quotes

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.

I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going to do it anymore.

My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

That is the one missing link in my life. I wish I had spent more time with my children.

When I'm in that studio, I feel like I'm the king of the world. If I lose that, I'm going to lose a lot.

The idea of getting to make a movie like the ones that impacted me as a child is my life's dream.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

The frustration of a movie is that you are creating a new business every time you go off to make one, and in a funny way, that's what's exciting.