Quotes from Stanley Kubrick

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

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

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

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

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

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

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

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

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

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

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.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

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

The best education in film is to make one

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

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

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