I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world.

In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again.

Oh, I know that I'll never be perfectI'm just alive

Jealous is just a wish that it was you doing that thing.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.