No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.