192 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.

I didn’t want murder. It’s all gone wrong.

I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

The director’s job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They’re admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

Take a stress pill and think things over – HAL in 2001.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you’re in trouble.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.