Stanley Kubrick

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

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

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

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

Perhaps it's a good thing that we are not always able to understand the things we create.

You can't make a film without a script, but you can always change the script.

The really terrifying thing about 'The Shining' is that it's a story about a man who goes mad and tries to kill his family. And that's something that can happen to anyone.

I think the big mistake in schools is to try to teach children to be like adults.

The greatest truth is that there is no truth.

Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is a war against himself.

Only the very young and the very old can afford to be honest.

The best education is to travel.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it goes along, even when the mind wants to wander.

I've always been interested in the dark side of things.

The truth of a thing is in the feeling of it, not in the thinking of it.

What is there in the human spirit that makes it so difficult for us to be happy?

The most important thing for me is to try to make films that are interesting to me, and that I would want to see.

I do not believe in God, but I am very interested in the possibility that there is something else.

The great problem with people is that they don't know what they want.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.