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

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

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

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.

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

The best education in film is to make one