I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

I dive as much as I can.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

Fascinations breeds preparedness and preparedness survival.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory it's theirs.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

There's no better citizen than a veteran. There's so much waiting for you outside, and it's not something to be intimidated by or scared by; it is something to be embraced.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

You are your own cannoe and you are your own paddle, so paddle your own cannoe. Society had taught us to give away our power and abilities by making us to believe that other people are responsible for our success and failure. That is not fair!

It's really fun to come to the same place to work every day.

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.

If you need all the answers to trust God you are not really trusting God.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?