“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”

“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”

“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”

“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”

“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”

“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.—Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper”

“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.”