black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Stanley Kubrick

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

History Humour Political
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Heart Learning Moving
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Anything Nobody Thinking
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Like Movie Obsessed
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Fear Marine War
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Done Jobs Story
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Clear Enigma Personality
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK

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

Care Way
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stanley Kubrick Quotes