I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

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.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.