I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

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.

Conflicts may create unfathomable distances.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

Love is for friends & pets...and family...only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.