I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
-
-
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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 -
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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 -
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
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 KUBRICK -
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK -
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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 -
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The 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 KUBRICK -
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
You 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 KUBRICK -
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
STANLEY KUBRICK