Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

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.

Truth is something believed in heart.Fact is anything happened in realities.

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.

Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.

Don’t play with damaged goods, you will only hurt yourself.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

I was never born, I didnt die.

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.