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- “A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” ― Stanley Kubrick
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- President Muffley - Dr. Strangelove
- Buck Turgidson - Dr. Strangelove
- Hal 9000 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Alex Delarge - A Clockwork Orange
- The Grady Twins - The Shining
- Jack Torrance - The Shining
- Private Joker - Full Metal Jacket
- Bill Harford - Eyes Wide Shut
"Gentleman, You Can't Fight In Here. It's The War Room!"
Kubrick's scathingly dark comedy about dystopic nuclear waris as absurd as it gets, with Peter Sellers stealing the show in three different roles. As the measured U.S. President Muffley constantly loses his cool during war room strategizing, he makes a hilariously hypocritical quip that strikes the heart of the film's message. When two high-ranking dignitaries nearly come to blows after they disagree about how to prevent a nuclear war, the President tries to restore order and decorum to the t...
"Mr. President, I'm Not Saying We Wouldn't Get Our Hair Mussed. But I Do Say No More Than 10 To 20 Million Killed Tops...Depending On The Brakes."
With a surname like Turgidson, Kubrick has ensured the high-ranking General is as thick as it gets. As such, George C. Scott delivers the line about the ramifications of nuclear war so flippantly, casually, and without a shred of remorse, that one can only roll their eyes and chuckle at the absurdity. The line underscores the point Kubrick is making about how the government at the time viewed human lives as mere sacrificial pawns to ensure future peace on earth. President Muffley rejects the...
"I'm Afraid. I'm Afraid, Dave. Dave, My Mind Is Going. I Can Feel It. I Can Feel It. My Mind Is Going. There Is No Question About It."
Arguably t most terrifying computer shutdown sequence in film history, the way in which HAL 9000 slowly and sleepily utters the line as the sentient AI is being dismantled in real-time is truly iconic. Dave Bowman discovered that the robot had a murderous mind of its own and had to protect himself by dismantling the computer piece by piece. RELATED: 2001 A Space Odyssey: 10 Major Differences The Book & Movie The increasingly slowed and slurred speech gives HAL 9000 frightening human qualities...
"It's Funny How The Colors Of The Real World Only Seem Really Real When You Viddy Them On The Screen."
Adapting Anthony Burgess' witty prose inA Clockwork Orangeamounts to some of Kubrick's most colorful and unique movie quotations. A violent teenager under major societal illusions, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) notes the blurred line between fiction and reality as he knows it. The line underscores Alex's inability to distinguish his own violent actions from the fiction he sees in movies and on television, indicating a disillusioned teenager who does not grasp the severity of his crimes until much l...
"Hello, Danny. Come Play With Us. Come Play With Us, Danny. Forever...And Ever...And Ever."
Likely still causing nightmares everywhere, when young Danny Torrance rounds the corner of the Overlook on his big wheel to find the two twin girls staring back at him in the middle of the hall, Kubrick delivers one of his most terrifying scenes. The dialogue is forever haunting. RELATED: Stanley Kubrick's 10 Favorite Horror Movies What makes the quote so alarming is the way Kubrick crosscuts Danny's visions of the young girls lying in a pool of blood and back to the innocent quote beckoning...
"Here's Johnny!"
It's now common knowledge that Jack Nicholson ad-libbed The Shining's most iconic line poking fun at late-night TV host Johnny Carson as Jack Torrance tries to murder his wife Wendy with an ax in the bathroom. It's the tight framing and maniacal grin on Torrance's face that makes the line so scary. While Danny repeating "redrum" (murder spelled backward) adds to the dramatic terror in the sequence, it's the odd blend of campy humor Torrance elects at his most murderous that causes such a jarr...
"The Dead Know Only One Thing: It's Better To Be Alive."
While R. Lee Ermey delivers memorable but wildly inappropriate quotes as the drill sergeant in the darkly comedic war movieFull Metal Jacket, it's the philosophical musings of Private Joker (Matthew Modine) that really resonate the most. The best comes when he's burying soldiers in a massive grave in the Vietnam war. Joker states the line with a sobering tone as bodies are covered in lime. Of course, dead people have no memories, which makes the line particularly haunting while also reinforci...
"And No Dream Is Ever Just A Dream."
Based on a novella entitled Traumnovelle, which translates to Dream Story, much of what transpires in Eyes Wide Shutcan be considered one long dream by protagonist Bill Harford (Tom Cruise). After his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) admits to having a sexual fantasy, Bill wanders the night on an erotic odyssey looking for revenge. At every turn, however, he is denied. In the final scene, Bill finally admits that while he is now wide awake, dreams have profound consequences whether one likes them o...
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Mar 10, 2021 · Get motivated by these best Stanley Kubrick quotes on film-making. 1."A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
1 day ago · Quoted in Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (1999) by Frederic Raphael, p. 107; There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. Quoted in Kubrick : Inside a Film Artist's Maze (2000) by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10
Mar 7, 1999 · When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip. Enjoy the best Stanley Kubrick Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Stanley Kubrick, American Director, Born July 26, 1928. Share with your friends.
These are just a few of the many profound and thought-provoking quotes from Stanley Kubrick. They not only offer a glimpse into the mind of a master filmmaker but also provide valuable insights into the nature of art, humanity, and the world we live in.
Quotes. Stanley Kubrick. I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
