There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?