Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

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.

If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.

We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.