Explore Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

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

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.