When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

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.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

Dance to the music of your soul.

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

The sea has testified that Africa and Europe have kissed

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.