“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“ [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism] No. To see a film once and write a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image