New 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 KUBRICKThe destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
-
-
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
I 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 KUBRICK -
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
I’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 KUBRICK -
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK -
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
A 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 KUBRICK -
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK