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Stanley Kubrick Quotes & Sayings

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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. — Stanley Kubrick

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker? — Stanley Kubrick

The screen is a magic medium ... — Stanley Kubrick

Like the man said, can happiness buy money? — Stanley Kubrick

Take a stress pill and think things over
HAL in 2001 — Stanley Kubrick

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel. — Stanley Kubrick

The best education in film is to make one — Stanley Kubrick

My reputation has grown slowly. — Stanley Kubrick

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. — Joel Coen

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities? — Stanley Kubrick

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. — Stanley Kubrick

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it. — Stanley Kubrick

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life. — Stanley Kubrick

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better. — Stanley Kubrick

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. — Stanley Kubrick

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me. — Stanley Kubrick

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong. — Stanley Kubrick

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. — Stanley Kubrick

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good. — Stanley Kubrick

Everybody has their black moments. — Stanley Kubrick

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. — Stanley Kubrick

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. — Stanley Kubrick

Observation is a dying art. — Stanley Kubrick

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films. — Stanley Kubrick

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember? — Stanley Kubrick

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. — Stanley Kubrick

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive — Stanley Kubrick

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir. — Stanley Kubrick

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime. — Stanley Kubrick

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it. — Stanley Kubrick

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere. — Stanley Kubrick

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC. — Stanley Kubrick

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly. — Stanley Kubrick

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. — Stanley Kubrick

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough. — Stanley Kubrick

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. — Stanley Kubrick

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way. — Stanley Kubrick

How does anybody ever think of anything? — Stanley Kubrick

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea. — Stanley Kubrick

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories. — Steven Spielberg

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. — Stanley Kubrick

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. — Stanley Kubrick

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed. — Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. — Stanley Kubrick

You either care or you don't. — Stanley Kubrick

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie. — Stanley Kubrick

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. — Stanley Kubrick

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks. — Stanley Kubrick

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice. — Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. — Roberto Benigni

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece. — Tim Cahill

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence. — Stanley Kubrick

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick. — Olivier Megaton

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. — Stanley Kubrick

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous. — Stanley Kubrick

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man. — Stanley Kubrick

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people. — Stanley Kubrick

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie. — Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance. — Stanley Kubrick

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me. — Stanley Kubrick

You know, Michael, it's not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass. — Stanley Kubrick

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much. — Peter Weir

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want. — Stanley Kubrick

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing. — Stanley Kubrick

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it. — Stanley Kubrick

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. — Stanley Kubrick

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. — Stanley Kubrick

I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial. — Stanley Kubrick

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films. — Stanley Kubrick

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie — Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?' — Tom Cruise

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion. — Stanley Kubrick