The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.