I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

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.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.