I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

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.

You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!

The worst thing about falling to pieces is that humans can do it so quietly.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.