Quotes About Kubrick

When Kubrick called me about 'The Shining,' it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about 'The Awakening of Jacob,' which he did use in 'The Shining.'

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.

I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. He seemed to possess no airs or attitudes, neuroses, or predilection towards tantrums.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

In every Kubrick movie, there is so much great thought put into the surroundings. It's almost like the sets are huge characters in the movie at all times.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

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.

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They really just want to know about it. They're all fans of Kubrick.

I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.

If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And 'Raging Bull' is my favorite male performance ever.

Audiences did not exactly clamour for their money back, but they wondered why Kubrick left out the dénouement. People wrote to me about this—indeed much of my later life has been expended on Xeroxing statements of intention and the frustration of intention—while both Kubrick and my New York publisher coolly bask in the rewards of their misdemeanour. Life is, of course, terrible.

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.'

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

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

I love 'The Shining.' Kubrick is pretty amazing.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater power.

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

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

My favorite filmmakers are in the Kubrick, Polanski kind of mold. I just like that world. I think it's more cinematic and gets under your skin more.