Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

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.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.