In Jaws, what does Chief Brody say after seeing the shark near the boat?

In Jaws, Chief Brody says, “You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Roy Scheider delivers the line after Brody, aboard the Orca, gets a close look at the enormous great white shark terrorizing Amity Island. The moment communicates the scale of the danger with a brief, understated joke rather than a long speech.

Steven Spielberg directed Jaws, which was released in 1975 and adapted from Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel. Scheider played police chief Martin Brody, while Robert Shaw played shark hunter Quint and Richard Dreyfuss played marine biologist Matt Hooper.

The quotation is sometimes misremembered as “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” The film’s commonly cited wording is “You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” making the distinction useful for quotation questions. Jaws became a landmark summer blockbuster and helped establish the modern blockbuster release pattern.