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

The reason movies are often so bad out here isn't because the people who make them are cynical money hacks. Most of them are doing the very best they can; they really want to make good movies. The trouble is with their heads, not their hearts.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.