Stanley Kubrick Movie Quotes

#1. Pain brings clarity.

Kristen Painter

#2. I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

Harvey Weinstein

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

Stanley Kubrick

#4. 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

#5. To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

Frank Delaney

#6. I have to believe in God. Because if I didn't believe in God...I'd have to believe in man.

Lindor Joelle

#7. There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

#8. Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

Mike Tyson

#9. 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

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

Stanley Kubrick

#11. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting. Siddhrtha Gautama

Seth Godin

#12. MODESTY My momma, your momma, gonna catch a witch My momma, your momma, flying on a switch My momma, your momma, witches never cry My momma, your momma, witches gonna die! As

J.K. Rowling

#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. My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.

Gina Barreca

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

Stanley Kubrick

#17. 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

#18. We are beautiful, strange creatures of heat and noise, of sudden, inscrutable impulses, of savage passions.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#19. 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

#20. I've always been your girl. You just didn't know it.

A.L. Jackson

#21. 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

#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. Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

Thomas A Kempis

#24. The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Benjamin Tucker

#25. I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

Carlos Ghosn

#26. 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

#27. 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