Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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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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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
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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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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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You either care or you don’t.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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The best education in film is to make one
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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