The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

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

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.