Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKI used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
-
-
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 -
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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 -
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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 -
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK -
I’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 -
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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 -
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK