Stanley Kubrick Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Everybody has their black moments.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

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

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

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

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

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

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

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The best education in film is to make one

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

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

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.