Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

With Star Wars, George put the butter back into the popcorn.

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

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

I dream for a living. July 15, 1985

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years. 1979

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life; that's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Searchers.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? On winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan