If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

I AM your anchor. I AM your haven. Let My Peace and Love infill and enfold you.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.