Stanley Kubrick

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Stanley Kubrick

“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the…

— Stanley Kubrick

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had…

— Stanley Kubrick

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

— Stanley Kubrick

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

— Stanley Kubrick

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to…

— Stanley Kubrick