God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICKGod has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICKShooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICKLike the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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 KUBRICKYou 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 friends feel comfortable.
STANLEY KUBRICKI, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICKI love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICKTake a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICKHow does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK