192 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.