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
rain ocean men
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
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.
fish great moved night short tail
The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail
We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
care deeply eat hard might turn
It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.
fear lower respect
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.
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.
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.