Stanley Kubrick in his acceptance speech for the D.W. Griffith lifetime achievement award from the Director’s Guild of America in 1998:

I’ve compared Griffith’s career to the Icarus myth, but at the same time I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, “Don’t try to fly too high,” or whether it might also be thought of as “Forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”

via Daring Fireball