I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

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

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

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

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

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.