Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICKEither you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverybody has their black moments.
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 KUBRICKThere’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICKShooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’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 KUBRICKYou’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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 destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICKI, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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 KUBRICKLike the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICKHere’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK