I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent