My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car, and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

— Steven Spielberg

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

— Steven 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.

— Steven Spielberg

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

— Steven Spielberg

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

— Steven Spielberg

My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

— Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

— Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

— Steven Spielberg

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, anyone that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

— Steven Spielberg

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

— Steven Spielberg