I was always interested in films that scar.

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.

Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept

That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey.

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.