Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchleywas an American author. He wrote the novel Jaws and co-wrote its subsequent film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 May 1940
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
enter happen provoke shark sharks territory time
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.
brought hope interest public reevaluate sharks time
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.
anger begin chain close consequences devastated food great heat population reduce sharks top white
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.
ocean sharks predator
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain
crazy sharks evil
Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.
believe men sharks
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
sharks years white
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
sharks target grudge
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
sharks villain victim
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
based great written
Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.
based life sends somebody stories
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.
believe next tend
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
fear invent mario responsibility
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.