I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICKI, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
-
-
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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 -
Everybody has their black moments.
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 -
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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 -
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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 -
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK