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

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

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

The best education in film is to make one

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.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.