Stanley Kubrick — "The most overrated film of all time is 'Citizen Kane'."

"I think that the big mistake people make about movies is that they don't understand that films are essentially a dream process. You're not supposed to be able to explain what's going on in a dream. If…"

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

"The future is not a gift. It is an achievement."

"I have always been interested in the question of how to be human."