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

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.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

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