Kubrick Quotes
39 quotes by 30 authors
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Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
— Roberto Benigni
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We knew from the beginning the level of commitment needed. We felt honored to work with Stanley Kubrick. We were going to do what it…
— Tom Cruise
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We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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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…
— Jacques Rivette
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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
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For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very…
— Keir Dullea
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There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. Kubrick showed us…
— Bryan Singer
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
— R. Lee Ermey
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I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course…
— Dave Gibbons
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How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
— Tim Roth
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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
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When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
— Terry Southern
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I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me -…
— David Prowse
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It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film…
— Terry Southern
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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
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Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he…
— Gus Van Sant
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I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
— Tim Roth
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Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and…
— Frank Darabont
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
— R. Lee Ermey
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