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.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.