Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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My reputation has grown slowly.
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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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The best education in film is to make one
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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.
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My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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You either care or you don’t.
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.