Quotes

“I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.” Steven Spielberg

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.” Steven Spielberg

“I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.” Steven Spielberg

“I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.” Steven Spielberg

“If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.” Steven Spielberg

“If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.” Steven Spielberg

“In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.” Steven Spielberg

“Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.” Steven Spielberg

“Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.” Steven Spielberg

“My dad took me to my first movie.” Steven Spielberg

“Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.” Steven Spielberg

“Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.” Steven Spielberg

“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.” Steven Spielberg

“So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.” Steven Spielberg

“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.” Steven Spielberg

“The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.” Steven Spielberg

“There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.” Steven Spielberg

“Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.” Steven Spielberg

“When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.” Steven Spielberg

“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.” Steven Spielberg

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Carl Sagan

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Carl Sagan

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Carl Sagan

“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” Carl Sagan

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” Carl Sagan

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” Carl Sagan

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Carl Sagan

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” Carl Sagan

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” Carl Sagan