When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

Everybody has their black moments.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

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

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