Stanley Kubrick — "The very meaning of life is suffering. We are born to suffer, to suffer to help …"

"The most important thing for any director is to have a good script. If you don't have a good script, you might as well not bother."

"I don't think there's any such thing as a happy ending. I think there's just an ending."

"I think that the most important thing for a filmmaker is to have a strong vision and to stick to it, no matter what."

"The most powerful thing in the world is an idea whose time has come."

"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…"