Stanley Kubrick — "Perhaps it's a good thing that I'm not very social, because I don't think I coul…"

"If you really want to understand a film, you have to watch it at least three times. The first time, you watch the story. The second time, you watch the characters. The third time, you watch the subtex…"

"The really terrifying thing about 'The Shining' is that it's a story about a man who goes mad and tries to kill his family. And that's something that can happen to anyone."

"I'm not interested in making films for critics. I'm interested in making films for audiences, and if they like them, that's all that matters."

"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…"

"I think that man is a very dangerous animal, and that he has a great capacity for evil."