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

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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.

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.