Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001
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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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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.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.
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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
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The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.