Kubrick Movie Quotes

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

Stanley Kubrick

#2. Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Stanley Kubrick

#3. We live in the river of being, if we truly live.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#4. I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.

Patti Davis

#5. A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

Jeff Lemire

#6. People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Joe Biden

#7. I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

Rita Volk

#8. It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Stanley Kubrick

#9. You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

Stanley Kubrick

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

Terry Southern

#11. From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
Cruelly, being barren.
Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

Stanley Kubrick

#14. If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

Stanley Kubrick

#15. Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Stanley Kubrick

#16. 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 has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.

Dave Gibbons

#17. 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.

Wesley Morris

#18. Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

Leonard Ravenhill

#19. I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Jack Nicholson

#20. 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.

Jonah Hill

#21. one sentence seemed to change a man, and the world seemed to change, one man at a time.

Jung-Myung Lee

#22. The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

Stanley Kubrick

#23. The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Stanley Kubrick

#24. I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.

Michel Gondry