Steven Spielberg Quotes

The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

All sports for all people.

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

I get kids from all different cultures and nationalities coming up to me now, all wanting to be F1 drivers. They feel the sport is open to everyone.

The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

My door will be open to everyone.

Regardless of what you look like, regardless of where you come from, you can be involved in winter sports.

I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.

All are welcome in sport.

You can't close the door on anybody.