Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.
I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.
For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.