Quote

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Steven Spielberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steven Spielberg
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
Actor
Art Collector
Businessperson
Director
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Science Fiction Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Steven Allan Spielberg
Spielberg
Even
Qualities
Think
Unknown
Thinking
Challenge
Leadership
Leader
Challenges
Quality
Given
Tested

More quotes by Steven Spielberg

Image
The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
Steven Spielberg
Image
Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.
Steven Spielberg
Image
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
Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
Steven Spielberg
Image
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.
Steven Spielberg
Image
All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
Steven Spielberg
Image
I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg
Image
You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
Steven Spielberg
Image
It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
Steven Spielberg
Image
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
Steven Spielberg
Image
I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
Steven Spielberg
Image
I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.
Steven Spielberg
Image
I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience
Steven Spielberg
Image
I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
Steven Spielberg
Image
In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
Steven Spielberg
Image
Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
Steven Spielberg
Image
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
Steven Spielberg
Image
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
Steven Spielberg
Image
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
Steven Spielberg
Image
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
Steven Spielberg