2001: A Space Odyssey

“Kubrick had guts for taking it all the way back to prehistoric times.”

Martin Scorsese

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

“The design on '2001' … that's the threshold for everything being real. Stanley's design influenced everybody. I've never shaken it off; it influenced me even with 'Prometheus.' Stanley was like the Big Daddy, so I never got jealous of him.”

Ridley Scott

Director

“"I just felt this extraordinary experience of being taken to another world. You didn't doubt this world for an instant. It had a larger than life quality."”

Christopher Nolan

Director, Producer, Writer

“I remember going with a great sense of anticipation to each new Stanley Kubrick film and thinking: 'Can he pull it off and amaze me again?' And he always did. The lesson I learned from Kubrick was, never do the same thing twice.”

James Cameron

Director

“2001 had an ending I don't know what it means — but I have to think about it, I have to work. And it opens up all sorts of possibilities, and probably the next person I speak to has a different idea of what that ending means. That's what I always want to encourage.”

Terry Gilliam

Actor, Animator, Director, Producer, Writer

“I first saw it on TV when I was a kid probably in the wake of Star Wars being released and my parents saying oh you should watch it. I'm not sure I entirely understood it but I was completely transfixed by it.”

Edgar Wright

Director, Producer, Writer

“My first memory was being in the movie theater the strongest one up to this date, 60 or 48 years later. I still remember the shock of being transported into another dimension.”

Gaspar Noe

Director

“It opened my eyes to the cinematic technique, because even when you're drawing an animated film, you're drawing camera angles. And when you become aware of that, you start to see that certain filmmakers are always making great decisions.”

Brad Bird

Animator, Director, Writer

“For me, a perfect movie for many reasons.”

Denis Villeneuve

Director

“I got to get Kubrick on there. I think he's one of the best directors of all time.”

Cailee Spaeny

Actor

“I still watch it a couple of times a year and I also go to it and just hit the main specific points, but I could walk you through 2001: A Space Odyssey and not stop talking once during the entire film.”

Tom Hanks

Actor