Stanley Kubrick Quotes

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificanc...

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions a...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to,...

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photogr...

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a...

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. S...

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what,...

Observation is a dying art.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put yo...

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

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

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel...

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make yo...

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying...

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...