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..

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 ….

I don't know how to depict intelligence..

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that ….

The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arg….

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount..

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time..

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes..

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't mak….

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light..

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 s….

It's a very American thing to hide away from death..

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point….

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical..

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club….

I have demons you can't even imagine..

Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not w….

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box..

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, noth….

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive..

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness..