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.

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 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.

We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.

If you have to fight and want to win, use the strongest muscles: Heart.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

The allure becomes, "Can I make these rooms bigger?" Can I fill these 1,500-seat rooms? Then the allure is, how much, if we're being honest, how much can I squeeze out of it financially?

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.