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

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

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

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

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

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.