Stanley Kubrick Quotes

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.