192 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don’t become friends with anyone who has real power. It’s dangerous.

Have you ever had a single moment’s thought about my responsibilities?

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 interests are involved – that about sums it up. I’m interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it’s a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.

I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

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

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that’s going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.