Stanley Kubrick

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

Any time you take a risk, you risk failure. But if you don't take risks, you don't get anywhere.

The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.

The truth is often a terrible weapon.

I don't think there's any such thing as a perfect film. It's an impossibility.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I think that the big problem with people is that they don't know how to live.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

I don't really have any answers, I just have questions.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

The very nature of the film medium demands that the director be a kind of dictator. You have to be.

One of the most important things in life is to be able to laugh at yourself.

The human mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

I'm not a religious person, but I'm very interested in what makes people believe in things.

The purpose of art is to make us feel. Not necessarily to make us happy.

The most dangerous animal in the world is a human being with a good idea and a bad conscience.

I have always been interested in the question of how to be human.