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

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

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

It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

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