Steven Spielberg Summed Up His Entire Career With One Perfect Movie Quote

Steven Spielberg is often called the greatest living filmmaker, and his filmography is packed with iconic titles: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, A.I., Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can and Lincoln, to name a few.

The director, now 79, shows no sign of slowing down, with his upcoming sci-fi Disclosure Day among the summer’s most anticipated films. In many ways The Fabelmans acts as a Rosetta Stone for that career. The movie, drawn from Spielberg’s life, opens with young Sammy Fabelman taken to see The Greatest Show on Earth; his father Burt, an engineer, insists that understanding how something works dispels fear, while his mother Mitzi, the artist, tells him, “Movies are dreams that you never forget.” Sammy is mesmerized and sets off on a life of filmmaking.

That simple line captures Spielberg’s populist sensibility and explains why his work so often lodges in the public imagination.

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