Peter Benchley Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.”

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

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

“Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.”

“Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.”

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