Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

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 courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

Let us bring peace to the world by dreaming of peace.

Love will not come to me again. I’ll vegetate like a plant in a cellar, without light.

To see another as God intended, we must come from a place of loving inside ourselves, as God intended.

Evil is relatively rare

Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.