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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
Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
— R. Lee Ermey
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
HAL in 2001 — 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
I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.
— Philip Kerr
The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
— 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
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
— Marvin Minsky
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
— Stanley Kubrick
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
— Stanley Kubrick
Observation is a dying art.
— 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
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
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
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
— Terry Southern
How does anybody ever think of anything?
— Stanley Kubrick
Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
— Ernest Cline
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.
— Jacques Rivette
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
— Steven Spielberg
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
— Stanley Kubrick
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
— Stanley Kubrick
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
— Stanley Kubrick
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
— Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
— Bryan Singer
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
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
— Martin Scorsese
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
Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
— Stanley Kubrick
You either care or you don't.
— 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
Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
— R. Lee Ermey
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
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
— Ken Adam
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
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
Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
— Keir Dullea
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
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
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