One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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 KUBRICKI’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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 KUBRICKTake a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICKGod has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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 KUBRICKEither you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICKShooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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 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 KUBRICKBad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICKLike the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICKYou either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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 KUBRICK