If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

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

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

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