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

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

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

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.