Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICKThe screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICKGod has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICKOne man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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.
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 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’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKTake a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICKThe very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK