Gender equality is more successful than armed force.
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
I always wanted to design for films.
Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.
One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.
Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.
From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot. " And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.
When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.