Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.