American - Author | May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
Peter Benchley
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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.
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I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.
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Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
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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.
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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
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I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
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Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
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