I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

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

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.