Stanley Kubrick

It's Funny How The Colors Of The Real World Only Seem Really Real When You Viddy Them On The Screen.

I wouldn't say that Lee is the greatest actor in the world, but I do think that the greatest actor in the world couldn't have played the role better than Lee did.

I have a wife, three children, three dogs, seven cats. I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering.

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

You can't make a movie for the critics. You have to make it for yourself and hope that enough people like it.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can be meaningful.

The very meaning of life is suffering. We are born to suffer, to suffer to help others to suffer.

I've never been certain whether the world is run by smart men who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

The great problem with people is that they believe they have to be in love to be happy. They don’t. They have to be in love to reproduce.

Perhaps it's a good thing that I'm not very social, because I don't think I could stand the company of most living people.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The greatest enemy of art is good taste.

I think the best plots are the ones that are not too obvious, that are sort of hidden in the subtext, so that you have to think about them a bit.

Never having had a religious upbringing, I'm not burdened by any of the guilt that seems to go along with it.

The most important thing for any director is to have a good script. If you don't have a good script, you might as well not bother.

The screen is a magic medium. It has power that can transform a person's life. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can make you think. It can change your mind.

I've always been interested in the dark side of things. I think it's because it's where the real drama is.

The condition of man is to be in a state of perpetual struggle, and it is through this struggle that he finds his identity.

The thing that's always fascinated me about movies is that they're a dream that you can share with other people.

I think that man is a very dangerous animal, and that he has a great capacity for evil.