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

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.

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.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.

I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.