I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

I hear a small voicein the back of my mindand it is chanting a prayer:‘Please don’t fall in love again, please don’t fall in love again.’Maybe this time I will listen.Maybe this I will learn.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

Life is short, have dessert first.