Always stay open to surprise.
Black and white is never really black and white. It's shades of grey.
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
Deep down you want to think that people are really good- but the reality outweighs that.
Each film is interlocked with so many other films. You can't get away. Whatever you do now that you think is new was already done in 1913.
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
Given the nature of free-market capitalism- where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs- is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane... there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities... Both are places for people to come together and share.
I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.
Movies... fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory.
Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
There are times when you have to face your enemies. Sit down and deal with it.
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
There is no such thing as pointless violence... It's reality.
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
We're face-to-face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. Young people need to understand that not all images are out there to be consumed like, you know, fast food and then forgotten. We need to educate them to understand the difference between moving images that engage their humanity and their intelligence, and moving images that are just selling them something.
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
You've got to love something enough to kill it.
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