I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir. Stanley Kubrick More Quotes by Stanley Kubrick More Quotes From Stanley Kubrick Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. Stanley Kubrick car writing war You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point. Stanley Kubrick maps philosophical wish 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 but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory. Stanley Kubrick eye hero art Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant. Stanley Kubrick duplicity men people One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people. Stanley Kubrick frank doe people The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive Stanley Kubrick jackets alive knows You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Stanley Kubrick village-idiots pity idealist I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. Stanley Kubrick criminals weakness artist The screen is a magic medium. Stanley Kubrick mediums screens magic Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. Stanley Kubrick machines wish war My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times. Stanley Kubrick teenager lucky littles The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963 Stanley Kubrick ignorance people ideas The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware. Stanley Kubrick roots depression world Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man. Stanley Kubrick shooting creative men Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel. Stanley Kubrick tolerance rejection knowing Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC. Stanley Kubrick wells running war All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Stanley Kubrick play inspirational boys The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent Stanley Kubrick hostile indifferent facts I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed. Stanley Kubrick tomorrow dying fear 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. Stanley Kubrick horse degrees done
