I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration…

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

— Stanley Kubrick

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess…

— Stanley Kubrick

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

— Stanley Kubrick

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the…

— Stanley Kubrick

New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and…

— Stanley Kubrick

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other…

— Stanley Kubrick

“ [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism] No. To see a film once and write a…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

— Stanley Kubrick

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she…

— Stanley Kubrick

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

— Stanley Kubrick

I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe…

— Stanley Kubrick