You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

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

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

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

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

How does anybody ever think of anything?