"You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it! If no one hires you, use the camera on your phone and post everything on YouTube. A young person has more opportunities to direct now than in my day. I’d have liked to begin making movies today."

Spielberg: "I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot."

Spielberg: "I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism."

Spielberg: "If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world."

Spielberg: "A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values."

Spielberg: "People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning."

Spielberg: "I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today."

Spielberg: "I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

Spielberg: "I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time."

Spielberg: "I am a very impatient director."

Spielberg: "I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera."

Spielberg: "My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman."

Spielberg: "My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do."

Spielberg: "You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting."

Spielberg: "I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history."

Spielberg: "From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel."

Spielberg: "When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself."

Spielberg: "I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make."

Spielberg: "I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them."

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, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone."

Spielberg: "Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?"

Spielberg: "You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know."

Spielberg: "When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set."

Spielberg: "I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives."

Spielberg: "All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives."

Spielberg: "Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry."

Spielberg: "The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts."

Spielberg: "Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years."

Spielberg: "There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility."

Spielberg: "The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time."

Spielberg: "The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

Spielberg: "You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make."