We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for,… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
