Steven Spielberg

“She always said, ‘Let’s not be conceited to think that we’re the only intelligent life in the universe,’”

“'Disclosure Day' is about how, if somebody had the power and if somebody had possession of the entire archive of visual evidence of what's been happening for the last 80 years, what would happen if they decided to do a data dump across the entire world all at once?”

“But I also remember seeing these points of light darting across the sky. And I just remember thinking that was one of the most extraordinary things I had ever seen.”

“And the people who are trying to stop that data dump from happening, that is basically the core of this chase movie.”

“I’ve been a believer since I made ‘Close Encounters’ 50 years ago,”

“I didn’t care whether people thought ‘The Fabelmans’ was just a tale, a yarn, or if they cared that it was all true. I didn’t care about that. It was something I did for myself. I always used to say it was $40 million of therapy that I didn’t have to pay for. Universal did,”

“It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,”

“It was the hardest question I ever had to ask myself because there was such completion in resolving so many personal issues that I had never aired in public before ‘The Fabelmans,’”

“We’d be in different time zones and I would wake up to 30 or 35 texts from his most current reading of the script. When the leader of the project has that level of commitment, it tends to bring along everyone. You up your game.”

“an appetite for a Western, which I will someday hopefully do. It’s something that’s eluded me for all of these decades.”

“I’m making a lot of movies and I have no plans … ever … to retire.”

“I remember how shocked I was,”

“And then, who are you gonna watch? Are you gonna watch the [TV] screen, or are you gonna watch the actor? Richard's great, but you're watching the [TV] screen now.”

“The Emily Blunt character (Margaret Fairchild), you know, something has happened to her. She has no idea what it is. She has to try to understand why this has upended her life.”

“Right there you say, Wait a second, did I see what I think I saw?”

“to have buy-in from the audience that such a conspiracy could exist?”

“It’s much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak.”

“And he said, ‘Oh, you know, aliens again. But different this time.’”

“I said, ‘Sure, what’s it about?’”