I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be 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.

Stop thinking that racism is fun until a racist person get under your skin, that's when you'll know racism is not fun.

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself?

Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.