All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

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.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.