Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

More Quotes By Stanley Kubrick

• Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don’t become friends with...
• The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
• Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of...
• Never say no to an idea – you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
• However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
• The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent,...
• The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
• The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability...
• You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
• If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone...
• A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a...
• You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect...
• The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
• Man isn’t a noble savage, he’s an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be...