Kubrick Quotes

“(Stanley Kubrick) worked more like an essayist than a director.”
― Emilio D'Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side

“Hi, Lloyd, a little slow tonight isn't it?'

Lloyd said it was. Lloyd asked him what would it be.

'Now I'm really glad you asked me that, really glad. Because I happen to have two twenties and two tens in my wallet and I was afraid they'd be sitting right there until sometime next April. There isn't a 7-Eleven around here, would you believe it? And I thought they had 7-Elevens on the fucking moon.'

Lloyd sympathized.

'So here's what, you set me up an even twenty martinis...One for every month I've been on the wagon and one to grow on. You can do that, can't you? You aren't too busy?

Lloyd said he wasn't busy at all.

'Good man. You line those martinis up right along the bar and I'm going to take them down, one by one. White man's burden, Lloyd my man.'

Lloyd turned to do the job. Jack reached into his pocket for the money clip and came out with an Excedrin bottle instead.

'I seem to be momentarily light,' Jack said. 'How's my credit in this joint, anyhow?'

Lloyd said his credit was fine.

'That's super. I like you, Lloyd. You were always the best of them. Best damned barkeep between Barre and Portland, Maine. Portland, Oregon for that matter.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“There is something worse than being unmasked: not being unmasked. Thus the crime will have kept on leaving clues, and illusion itself cannot bear to remain illusion. It is constantly prostituting itself to the world and actualizing itself in full view.

Thinking is as difficult as walking in the snow without leaving tracks.
Or else you have to go back over your tracks step by step, like the child in The Shining, pursued by his father in the labyrinth of ice.

Political power exists only because we want absolutely none of it. And the political sphere is there only to mask this defection on our part by a trompe-l'oeil system of representation.
But life, such as it is, we want too. And force, potency. That too we want, irresistibly. But perhaps less deeply than we want its opposite.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“With every movie that they do, they’ll come up with a few films they really like and we’ll talk about them. Way back when we did Barton Fink, Joel and Ethan would say, ’Think Kubrick!”
― Adam Nayman, The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together