In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

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.

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.

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!

Healing comes by faith. Faith is destroyed by doubt. If you doubt whether God wants people to be healed, you won’t see them healed.

What makes a man move, From comforts left behind, Then put motion toAdventures of the mind.

The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.'

Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.

When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going.

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.