Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you that I like your sensitivity, when you know it's the way that you walk.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

I think that people love Wipeout simply because its just plain, simple fun.

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.