Steven Spielberg Quotes

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

I read more history books than anything else.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

I like writing historical fiction.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.

I just love historical fiction.

I'm a history nut.

I read a lot of history for fun.

I am a great student and fan of history.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008 to do Untold History of the United States. That took five years. Co-author Peter Kuznick has been teaching history for something like 35 years, at American University and other places. His group of researchers brought me into contact with a lot of books.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.