Stanley Kubrick
Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.Collection: Horse
My reputation has grown slowly.Collection: Recognition
Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?Collection: Single Mom
I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.Collection: Thinking
I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.Collection: Gone
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.Collection: Depression
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.Collection: Art
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.Collection: Art
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.Collection: Motivational
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.Collection: Powerful
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.Collection: Opinion
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.Collection: Years
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.Collection: Fear
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.Collection: Writing
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.Collection: Destruction
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.Collection: Impossible
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.Collection: Baby
My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.Collection: Teenager
I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.Collection: Unhappy
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.Collection: Practice
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.Collection: Years
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963Collection: Ignorance
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.Collection: Imagination
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Philosophical
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.Collection: War
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.Collection: Death