Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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You either care or you don’t.
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It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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The best education in film is to make one
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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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.