Steven Spielberg Quotes

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I watched those things, I felt like it was such a good escape. It wasn't even that I needed an escape, but I wanted to be an actor so I could give that feeling to someone else.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.

I like spending time with the same people, so TV is great, but movies are cool because they're almost like a mini-vacation. It's cool to see other parts of the country or the world and get paid for it!

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

I don't like drama in my life, but I like reading about it.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

Historically, sci-fi movies have played an important role in inspiring young people.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

I think when, like, things like 'The Wizard' and even like 'Tron,' when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it.