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Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
— Stanley Kubrick, via Wikiquote
Tagged: schools, Teaching, Fear, motivation, Learning
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
— Stanley Kubrick, The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: Darkness, Positivity, struggles, Problems
“Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in. [axes the door]”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: pigs, huff and puff, three little pigs
“I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon, Tikmbuktu, Goddamned, Bartender
“What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Music, sound system
“God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drink, Soul, Beer, Goddamned
“Lloyd: What will you be drinking, sir?

Jack Torrance: Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drinking, hair of the dog
“Sometimes the truth of the thing is not so much in the think of it, but in the feel of it.”
— Stanley Kubrick, 2001: Filming the Future
Tagged: Truth, Feeling, Intuition, Gut, Thinking, Mind
“Wendy, listen. Let me out of here and I'll forget the whole damn thing! It'll be just like nothing ever happened. Wendy, baby, I think you hurt my head real bad. I'm dizzy, I need a doctor. Honey, don't leave me here.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: dizzy, pleading, Begging
“Larry, just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Assholes, Unreliable
“[about Wendy]
Delbert Grady: I feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: There's nothing I look forward to with greater pleasure, Mr. Grady.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Pleasure, punishment
“Come out, come out, whereever you are.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Threat
“The only film of mine that I don’t like is Spartacus”
— Stanley Kubrick, Work and life of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: film
“Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.

Delbert Grady: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: caretaker, Murder, Amnesia
“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt, cruel world, Pain
“[smashing the door to bits with an axe] Wendy, I'm home.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: scary, axe
“Danny Torrance: Dad?

Jack Torrance: Yes?

Danny Torrance: Do you like this hotel?

Jack Torrance: Yes, I do. I love it. Don't you?

Danny Torrance: I guess so.

Jack Torrance: Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: hotel, Forever
“Delbert Grady: Did you know, Mr. Torrance, that your son is attempting to bring an outside party into this situation? Did you know that?

Jack Torrance: No.

Delbert Grady: He is, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: Who?

Delbert Grady: A nigger.

Jack Torrance: A nigger?

Delbert Grady: A nigger cook.

Jack Torrance: How?

Delbert Grady: Your son has a very great talent. I don't think you are aware how great it is. That he is attempting to use that very talent against your will.

Jack Torrance: He is a very willful boy.

Delbert Grady: Indeed he is, Mr. Torrance. A very willful boy. A rather naughty boy, if I may be so bold, sir.

Jack Torrance: It's his mother. She, uh, interferes.

Delbert Grady: Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I 'corrected' them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I 'corrected' her.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: outside party, nigger, n-word, racism
“Wendy Torrance: [crying] Stay away from me.

Jack Torrance: Why?

Wendy Torrance: I just wanna go back to my room!

Jack Torrance: Why?

Wendy Torrance: Well, I'm very confused, and I just need time to think things over!

Jack Torrance: You've had your whole fucking life to think things over, what good's a few minutes more gonna do you now?

Wendy Torrance: Please! Don't hurt me!

Jack Torrance: I'm not gonna hurt you.

Wendy Torrance: Stay away from me!

Jack Torrance: Wendy? Darling? Ligh, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in! [Wendy gasps] Gonna bash 'em right the fuck in!

Wendy Torrance: Stay away from me! Don't hurt me!

Jack Torrance: [sarcastically] I'm not gonna hurt ya...

Wendy Torrance: Stay away! Stop it!

Jack Torrance: Stop swingin' the bat. Put the bat down, Wendy. Wendy? Give me the bat...”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Death Threats, Domestic Violence
“General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.

General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
— Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Tagged: Communist, Red Scare, infiltration, Conspiracy, precious bodily fluids
“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: inspiration, Music
“She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a flu epidemic! The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A VICTIM OF THE MODERN AGE! Poor, poor girl!”
— Mr. Alexander, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Rape, hoodlums, modern world, Flu
“Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers? Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first. Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and 'trust' in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a 'contract,' in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a 'moral and ethical principal' is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Responsibilities, Trust, Future
“Wendy Torrance: Hey. Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack Torrance: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.

Wendy Torrance: Oh.

Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?

Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?

Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.

Wendy Torrance: Jack...

Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: donner party, Sierras, Mountains, Cannibalism
“We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal... and Cream of Wheat. You got... [then, telepathically to Danny] How'd you like some ice cream, Doc?...a dozen jugs of black molasses, we got sixty boxes of dried milk, thirty twelve-pound bags of sugar... Now we got dried peaches, dried apricots, dried raisins and dried prunes. You know Mrs. Torrance, you got to keep regular, if you want to be happy!”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: ice cream, Fruits, vegetables, corn flakes, cereal, sugar puffs, rice krispies
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