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

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

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

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

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