“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.”

Peter Benchley

“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 low...”

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 be...”

Peter Benchley

“Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.”

Peter Benchley

“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.”

Peter Benchley