'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce. Steven Spielberg More Quotes by Steven Spielberg More Quotes From Steven Spielberg All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. Steven Spielberg motivational inspirational life From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. Steven Spielberg parent important mind I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. Steven Spielberg dream night All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. Steven Spielberg good-ideas long ideas Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. Steven Spielberg elusive inevitable Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. Steven Spielberg goal giving art The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of. Steven Spielberg It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship. Steven Spielberg forgiving mistake moving You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! Steven Spielberg film should dream When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. Steven Spielberg sponges trying Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? Steven Spielberg movie inspiring funny Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling. Steven Spielberg race feelings ideas The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg creating opportunity giving When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. Steven Spielberg knowing kids people Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. Steven Spielberg movie magic actors 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. Steven Spielberg positivity movie inspiring The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life. Steven Spielberg earth hurt shows The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. Steven Spielberg far-away imagination reality The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them. Steven Spielberg only-time film 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. Steven Spielberg majority awkward shy
