You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

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.

People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!