It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

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.

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

They were numerically outnumbered.

Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.