Peter Benchley : (3)

" If you’re young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you’re Hemingway. The next day you’re nothing. " - Peter Benchley

" 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.’ " - Peter Benchley

" 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. " - Peter Benchley