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.

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 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.

...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

Save the World-ers

I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

No one is sanctified except him who is united to the Church.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.