Stanley kubrick

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

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

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

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

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

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