No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.