Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

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.

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.