I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

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.

The superior man responds

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

I am living breathing freedom.

The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.