Top 12 Inspiring Steven Spielberg Quotes

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history.

While a student at Carlifornia State University he was offered a small unpaid intern job at Universal Studios with the editing department. He was later given the opportunity to make a short film for theatrical release, the 26-minute, 35 mm, Amblin', which he wrote and directed.

The executives at Universal were so impressed, they signed Spielberg as a television director. It made him the youngest director ever to be signed for a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.

Steven Spielberg dropped out of college and didn't get his degree until 2002, 33 years later.

The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $10 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing director in history. His net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion.

1. All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.

2. I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for a living.

3. Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that’s what I think keeps me hungry.

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

5. Sometimes a dream almost whispers… it never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.

6. 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.

7. My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. 

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

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

10. I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

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

12. Money to me is not a factor in my life.