Quotes
 [as the shark approaches Brody]
Martin Brody: Alright, you big bastard! Come On! I`ve got something for ya` now! That`s it! Attaboy, come one! Right over here! Martin Brody: Oh, Hendricks, good! Right this way. Excuse us, please. I want you to come in here and, er, check out this 908.
Hendricks: What the hell`s a 908? I`ve never heard of a 908!
Martin Brody: 908 means get me outta there!
Mrs. Taft: Good morning. Selling some more of the good life?
Ellen Brody: Oh, yeah... Piece of this, piece of that - it all adds up.
Mrs. Taft: Your husband`s been here all morning. What`s he doing?
Ellen Brody: His job.
Ellen Brody: That`s your third smoke already!
Martin Brody: [complacent] Good coffee...
Ellen Brody: Try a donut.
Phil Fogarty: I can`t watch a ball game anymore, I can`t watch the news anymore! I can`t even watch a movie! All I hear is that damn kid and his damn radio going "Breaker, Breaker, Breaker"!
Martin Brody: Well, I`ll see what I can do, but remember, it`s under federal jurisdiction.
Phil Fogarty: So call the FBI!
Mayor Larry Vaughn: Brody is riding his tower.
Len Peterson: Oh, shit!
Martin Brody: I mean, it`s obvious that a big fish took a bite out of... this big fish.
Dr. Elkins: This is a mammal. Not a fish.
Martin Brody: Don`t quibble with me! Is it a shark bite or isn`t it?
Dr. Elkins: Possibly. Again, this is a killer whale, wouldn`t have to be a shark a considerable size.
Helicopter Pilot: That you, Brody?
Martin Brody: Listen, did you have a fix on those kids yet?
Helicopter Pilot: Negative - I`m still down.
Martin Brody: Well, you`d better get the hell up because, I`m out here all alone!
Andy Williams: Did your mom put all this together?
Mike Brody: Yeah, it`s her job.
Andy Williams: Did she make the punch?
Mike Brody: No.
Andy Williams: [throwing it back in the bowl] Good, it`s terrible!
[after Brody has been fired]
Martin Brody: Maybe they`re right... I`m tired... I`m tired... Too damn tired...
Ellen Brody: Too damn drunk. That`s what you are, too damn drunk.
[Hendricks and Red are dragging the ocean in the police launch]
Red: We`ve been over this a dozen times.
Hendricks: I know, I know!
Red: How much longer?
Hendricks: Until we find something!
Red: But I`m cold, bored...
Hendricks: You`re bored!
[the launch snags a power line]
Red: Oh, shit! Drop it!
Hendricks: Wh- What is it?
Red: Drop it! It`s a power line!
Hendricks: Oh, terrific!
Martin Brody: Better check the bite radius.
Dr. Elkins: The what?
Martin Brody: The shape of the mouth...
Dr. Elkins: Whales mouth?
Martin Brody: Shark`s mouth.
Dr. Elkins: What shark?
Martin Brody: The shark that did this.
Dr. Elkins: We don`t know that, do we?
Martin Brody: But we`re here to find out!
Dr. Elkins: And we will.
Hendricks: I can`t hear you if you`re going to whisper!
Tina Wilcox: ...Now I`m getting black and blue marks all over my butt, and my moms starting to get uptight about them!
Martin Brody: I think we`ve got another shark problem.
Mayor Larry Vaughn: Are you serious?
Martin Brody: You bet I`m serious.
Len Peterson: Brody, this is nothing! Seaweed, mud, something on the lens...
Martin Brody: Lens my ass!
Len Peterson: You`re damn right it`s your ass!
[looking for a dance]
Timmy: Who are you going to ask next?
Doug: Tina Wilcox.
Timmy: Ed`s girlfriend... You`re crazy!
Doug: It doesn`t hurt to ask. Sometimes the most beautiful girls are the loneliest.
Timmy: That`s a crock of shit!
Timmy: I know!
Martin Brody: You don`t have to worry about being sued or being ruined if this turns out to be what I think it is, because there won`t be anybody here!
Martin Brody: But I`m telling you, and I`m telling everybody at this table that that`s a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I`ve seen one up close. And you`d better do something about this one, because I don`t intend to go through that hell again!
Martin Brody: That boat`s gonna take you in. Where the hell are they?
Hendricks: About ten degrees off your starboard bow. You take...
Martin Brody: Don`t give me that shit, point!
Sean Brody: What`s after Cable Junction?
Bob: The Atlantic. Then Ireland.
Trivia
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Original director John D. Hancock was fired and replaced by Jeannot Szwarc.
According to actor Joseph Mascolo (Len Peterson), scenes were filmed by original director John D. Hancock that fleshed out his character; in particular, Peterson`s mob connections, as mentioned in Carl Gottlieb/Dorothy Tristan`s original screenplay. Once Hancock was fired, those scenes were discarded and never used.
Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss were approached to direct and star in the sequel but production on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) was running behind and they declined to participate.
On the Brodys` front porch is a flower planter painted bright yellow. It is one of the barrels from the first Jaws (1975).
In one of the boat scenes a young man is seen reading a book: "Jaws" by Peter Benchley.
In the final draft of the script, Marge and the helicopter pilot both survive their shark attacks by hiding in the bubble of the upturned helicopter. They are last seen arriving at cable junction and presumably survive the film.
This marks the last film of Mark Gruner`s (Mike Brody) acting career.
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# When the crew had to go back to Martha`s Vineyard for re-shoots in the Fall of 1977, many of the trees had already lost their leaves. The crew actually put fake leaves on the trees to make it look like it was still Summer.
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# Due to difficulties with weather and environment, most of the movie was filmed in and around Fort Walton Beach, Florida on the Northwest Panhandle. Many ocean scenes were actually shot in the Choctawhatchee Bay. Cable Crossing Island was a floating set that was kept docked at the Shalimar Yacht Basin when not needed and could be seen from the Garniers Bayou Bridge with its faux beacon flashing at night. Interior shots of the teen hang-out where they play pinball were filmed in the original location of the Hog`s Breath Saloon on Okaloosa Island. This business relocated to a new facility in Destin, Florida in recent years after the first site proved very susceptible to hurricane damage. The original building was still vacant and derelict in January 2005.
The camera operator used a cowboy saddle to be on top of the shark in a few scenes.
The helicopter scene took four days to shoot.
The name of Eddie`s boat is "Tina`s Joy".
The Cable Junction island set caused numerous problems during filming. The island was so slick, that it was difficult to traverse, and this resulted in numerous retakes having to be shot. Likewise, due to its not being anchored down properly, it once drifted away in the ocean, far away from the area where the crew was shooting.
Many scenes had to be shot in the fall/winter months. As such, the actors had to suck ice cubes prior to takes to avoid having their breath seen on camera.
Murray Hamilton`s scenes were shot hurriedly because his wife was in failing health during production of the film.
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# Ellen Brody tells her husband that Matt Hooper called to say he was on the Aurora. This is a reference to the first film. In the first film, Hooper turned down the opportunity to study on the Aurora in favor of studying the shark that was terrorizing the beach then.
Marc Gilpin (Sean Brody) claims that when they were shooting one of the scenes on the makeshift raft of wrecked yachts, they were being circled by a real hammerhead shark. All the actors were scared and began to scream and holler at the production crew who were filming that particular scene from a distance. The crew were oblivious to the danger and assumed the actors were simply `in character` and gave them the thumbs up!
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