Stanley Kubrick Quotes - Page 5

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

The screen is a magic medium.

New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.

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

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

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

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

My reputation has grown slowly.

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.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.