Love is a promise existence makes with us.

We feel responsibility but we never let ourselves feel connectedness.

Tell them what you do, and if they want to know more, they’ll ask.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

An evil discovered is half healed.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.