192 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.