Steven Spielberg Quotes

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

I worried too much when I was a kid.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

Kids have got such active imaginations and they're scared of so many different things.

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

When I was a little girl, I was incredibly shy. My hope was to blend in, to fit in, to not be noticed in any significant way. I was deeply insecure and unsure of myself.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.

Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin

I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live.