I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

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 ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.