I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICKOne man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICKHow could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICKAll my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICKHow does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICKA satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICKSanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICKEither you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICKNew York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK