Stanley Kubrick Interview Part 1 of 9

[mrscreenwriter]

Closest person to Kubrick is Spielberg, I'm not saying that Steven is Kubrick, but they share similarities.

[Transformers2themax]

@mrscreenwriter You're joking.

[SatenzaofRT]

Nolan is nowhere close to being on the same level of Kubrick. He is a gifted visual showman, who plays around with some interesting ideas in his movies, but Kubrick literally redefined the medium with his visual storytelling abilities. He understood that cinematic stories are told with images, sound, and motion. Nolan relies far too heavily on expository dialogue to get his stories told. He's not a bad filmmaker by any means, but he uses his shots more for visceral entertainment than meaning.

[BasementBeginnings]

Great interview, great photography, great filmmaker.

[bluballzzz]

his movies were long and boring

[SPOREthomas]

@bluballzzz If you honestly think that, then I pity you. You are obviously a very unappreciative and boring person.

[bluballzzz]

@SPOREthomas i always use space odeyys as a sleeping pill. fullmetal jacket was funny at the begining but all they did was talk when they went to vietnam

[MrBlasterFilms]

@bluballzzz And your a twelve year-old douche

[JimBrinkley1]

Now I know where PETER SELLERS found the 'voice' of CLAIRE QUILTY in LOLITA. He's mimicking STANLEY KUBRICK to the tee. Amazing!

[BubbleGumGirl105]

No one told me he had an awesome voice...

[jucurtis23]

Kubrick had a 67 GPA in high school?  That's probably the ONLY thing me and him have in common......

[TheBSxperience]

@jucurtis23 he is a different kind of genious

[greg5566]

Actually Lenny Bruce too for that matter. I guess it was how New Yorkers spoke in the 50s. We don't really hear it anymore. The accents, yes, but not the "you know," you know?

[greg5566]

Wow, there is something about the rhythm of his speech that is so similar to Bobbie Fischer. He doesn't have a strong Brooklyn accent, but the _way_ he talks is very similar.

[straker2]

Kubrick's comments on problem-solving is almost like a secret of success for life as a whole. I think he's absolutely right, our passions lead us to grow as people, more than some of the nonsense that we get bombarded with.

[Ladygagsalot]

Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Frederico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Charlie Chaplan are my faves.

As for the new generation: Christopher Nolan, Chan Wook Park, Stephen Chow, Takeshi Kitano (aka Beat Takeshi), and David Lynch stand out for me.

[nuksfilms]

no dislikes, thats right! haha

[kittykatro]

doesa anyone think that Kubrick sounds like an arrogant douchebag? There's something annoying in his voice...

[thesearewarningsigns]

@kittykatro you're a moron

[mitkoinhitko]

@kittykatro I think he sounds confident, not arrogant. He had to be confident to do the things he did.

[kittykatro]

@mitkoinhitko he sounds like a prick to me.....He's all like:"Ohhh......look at me, I'm so smart!!!!!!!" And the way he laughs.....Yikes!!!!

[film23790]

It's such a shame he did not do alot of interviews but at the same time it is understandable. Up to now his work is under appreciated (even though many people now appreciate it's unrivalled content) and i think he saw interviews as almost worthless because what creates the heart of his films is not allowed to be spoken about publicly. Stanley Kubrick's work is absolutely phenomenal and four of his films make my top 5 the other being David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

[Advent3546]

He's got a pretty good voice.

[duralaster]

This sounds like it could be Sellers as well.

[XXmissybooXX]

Shame alot of people think that Stanley Kubrick was cold and tactless.

Very charming, was he not? I love the way he speaks.

The pictures of him as a young man, (6:12 for example)... He was beautiful.

[mwells219]

we should be teaching kids to solve problems instead of how to take tests. then we wouldn't have so many people with college educations who are basically educated idiots with no real skills.

[jmh132]

Love the name, NonSubmersibleUnits.

[jwill5587]

Not what I expected Kubrick to sound like.

[mindstormsabrewin]

Kubrick's imagery is GORGEOUS! What he put up on screen was pure beauty and grace. Even the ugly moments are amazing poetic compositions that stay in your mind for a lifetime. He trusted his audience to be sophisticated enough to get it. Are there any filmmakers out there today that can achieve what this man did?

[rockyfan94]

@mindstormsabrewin Maybe christopher nolan, just maybe. Give him 20 more years and we can compare.

[mindstormsabrewin]

@rockyfan94 Well. Nolan is a good puzzle maker of a director. That's for sure. But he doesn't have the visual grace that Kubrick had. Then again... who does? But you're right in that Nolan has really just begun. In 20 years or so he just might be the next Hitchcock or Kubrick.

[TheScrewball1982]

@mindstormsabrewin Exactly my point....who does? His camera movement is immediately distinguishable, I don't understand how he does it. Nolan is one of my fave film makers right now though...he doesn't make bad movies lol

[dejabu24]

@mindstormsabrewin I'm agree with you about Kubrick and his visual gift, but I m not agree about Nolan to be the next Kubrick not even in 50 years from now , don't forget that Nolan has 41 years old and at that point of his carrer Kubrick had like 5 masterpieces on hes belt ( the Last Razzia , Path of Glory , Spartacus, Lolita ,2001: Space odessy ), Nolan only has made two or 3 good movies , he's a good director but Kubrick was a genius

[mindstormsabrewin]

@dejabu24 I think Nolan is well on his way if Inception is any indication. I thought Inception not only was conceptually brilliant but a very beautiful and moral story. Almost every main character goes through a life changing catharsis. NO one is killed in real life. Even when they are doing battle with the "security forces" they contemplate the morality of killing these projections. Unlike the Matrix films which are wall to wall slaughter. The story's enigmatic and very open to interpretation.

[jimmynorton1001]

@mindstormsabrewin I thought when I originally saw the ending of inception that the credits started with the waking music used in the film to wake the characters. I only imagined it though but that did not stop me from telling everyone how brilliant that ending that wasen't was. I resaw it and found that the waking music was not used right as the credits start. That was a let down and I suppose it's how subconciously I thought I heard at first viewing.  What do you think? neat ending perhaps

[tutuyin]

@jimmynorton1001 starts backwards. ha

[TheForgottenFlesh]

@mindstormsabrewin But what is Inception but Dark City?

[jimmynorton1001]

@dejabu24 I think everything is pretty much done as far as style.. As a movie fan it's very rare that my mind is blown with the exception of a few cohen brother films and some of nolans.. But what now?

[2Rezist]

@jimmynorton1001

Look up the trailer on youtube for a movie called Heart String Marionette. Trust me you have nothing to lose.

[GustafGouda]

@dejabu24 I agree with everything you've said - but what is "the last razzia"?

[dejabu24]

@GustafGouda yea well sorry for that I was talking about "the killing"

[malows1234]

@dejabu24 who the fuck even considers nolan in the same dam sentence as kubrick. jesus christ. there will never ever be a stanley kubrick ever agian. thats the truth, noone will make films with complete freedom like he did. no studio will let a filmmaker do it. secondly if there is a director that even has a chance to be compared to kubrick, its gotta be paul thomas anderson. but then agian kubrick is on a league of his own.

[dejabu24]

@malows1234 yea ,my sentiments exactly dude, every movie that Kubrick made was completely different from the other and unique

[malows1234]

@dejabu24 people shouuld stop the "new kubrick" arguement. cause there will never be one. noone can be eccentric enough to think up things like clockwork orange. noone has the balls to make a completely visual story like 2001. kubrick is not a genius filmmaker. he is one of the most genius artists to ever come about.

[dejabu24]

@malows1234 well what else can I say other than I'm 101% agree with you , he was out of this world , I do have all Kubrick's films and each one is very special

[malows1234]

@dejabu24 nice man. i am glad there are true kubrick fans like you, you should add me. also what is your favorite kubrick film? i like 2001 and clockwork orange. but for me i love Barry Lyndon, which seems to be extremely unfairly underrated. barry lyndon is definetely top 3, i love all the zoom shots, and the use of candlelights as light. also can you believe those greedy bastards at MGM stopped kubrick from making napoleon after he spent 6 years of research and location scouting. ITS CRAZY.

[me4ever22c]

@malows1234 But he didn't think of "A Clockwork Orange". It was adapted from a novel written by Anthony Burgess in 1962. Still, no one beats Kubrick.

[NeonMeateDream99]

@malows1234 while Kubrick is one of my favorites, I must point out the irony of your comment. Clockwork Orange was a film adaptation of the novel by Anthony Burgess. And, 2001: A Space Odyssey was also an adaptation of a novel written by none other than Arthur C. Clarke. While I think he's an excellent director, he evidently needed a heavy amount of incentive or reference for his films to have great concepts. ONE of the greatest, but I can think of others that are much better. Jodorowsky?

[iasedu]

@NeonMeateDream99 You have to remember that the film 2001: A Space Odyssey was finished before the novel was published, because Clarke and Kubrick wrote it together, even though Clarke is given the credit - as he had the typewriter, Kubrick was given Clarke live input of what he wanted from the novel. And going from a plain text to visual film is no easy job, you have to read them both, look at what Kubrick changed included/excluded and why, and how he visualized it.

[iasedu]

@NeonMeateDream99 A "good director" is not a person who have made good films, but a person who understand what a good film is. If you make 20 films, it will be more likely that some will be very good, than for all to be bad. A good director has to stay consistent, something I only see in David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky and Steve McQueen. A director like Spielberg has director many good movies, but also many bad ones, and I don't think he knows which is which.

[NeonMeateDream99]

@malows1234 I disagree. I prefer Nolan to paul thomas anderson. Anderson has always been "decent" to me. I usually despise the acting and I feel like he doesn't know how to make a cohesive masterpiece. His movies are just too long. Nolan has a similar issue though... to each their own I guess.

[malows1234]

@NeonMeateDream99 to me paul thomas anderson is the one making flawed masterpeices, while nolan is making decent popcorn films. but watever it all opinion. however its a fact that kubrick is a genius and neither anderson or nolan can match him, not visually, nor intellectually. i think we can agree.

[NeonMeateDream99]

@malows1234 yeah, I wasn't trying to sound condescending... but I merely disagree completely when you say that Nolan is making "decent popcorn films". At least if we're considering the output of todays mainstream cinema as a whole... Nolan is one of the few consistently delivering films that are refreshing and not dumbed down/cliche with their endless explosions and crappy cgi as well as boring redundant stories. He definitely does challenge his audience a bit.. Kubrick is undoubtedly better

[malows1234]

@NeonMeateDream99 oh ya nolan is wayyy better then most mainstream filmmakers. thats for sure. no doubts. i agree. in my opinion paul anderson is the master of this generation, but agian thats an opinion. they both are 2 of the best working right now. but ya lol kubrick is on another league. kubrick had a visual genius that will never be matched, and thats that. but then he was also an innovator, its like most say: No other filmmaker has advanced the "craft" of film more than stanley kubrick.

[theronandemily]

Godard, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Polanski, Tarantino, Lynch, Allen, Chaplin, Capra, Welles, Bunuel, P.T.Anderson, Aronofsky, W.Anderson, Myazaki, Gilliam, Fincher, Bluth,..........Kubrick is my favorite the rest in no particular order, being that they are so different........

[SilverHammock]

My Favourite Directors are 1) Martin Scorsese 2) Stanley Kubrick 3) Francis Ford Coppola 4) Quinton Tarintino 5) Steven Speilberg 6) John Hughes 7) Christopher Nolan 8) Robert Zemeckis 9) James Cameron 10) Gus Van Sant

[Tigerlily21]

Kurosawa, Kubrick, Scorsese, and the Coens are my favorite filmmakers of all time.

[AlbinusMakedonion]

My favourite filmmakers of all time are: Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, James Herbert, P. T. Anderson, David Lynch, Milos Forman, The Coens, Andrei Tarkovsky and William Castle. There are others, but those changed my life.

[Tothe2012]

Is this thread actually comparing Bay to Kubrick? Sure, I guess you could compare anything to anything. I can compare finger painting to Rodin, but is the comparison valid just because they are vaguely using the same mediums? Hey, I love Justin Bieber because it's almost like Mahler because it's music LOL.

[rhetoricalparadox]

I`m sure Stanley`s wealthy daddy solved half his problems...if he`d been born in Africa, or had a skint daddy like mine, we would never have heard of him....I failed English once too...then I got the crap beat out of me with a leather strap.

[MickyG4444]

@rhetoricalparadox yeah Kubrick was a hack... wait.. what?

[mwells219]

@rhetoricalparadox did kubrick come from a rich background? i figured he was more middle class with parents who were smart enough to give there son a camera and encourage his interests.

[kubrickzghost]

Why are you guys basing Bay and comparing him to these other guys. Bay hits a different generation with similar techniques. You're arguing style. It's subjective. By all means, Bay is a among the greats like Donner, Costner, and McTiernan. It seems the stigma of the emptiness in today's Hollywood conglomerate structure paints the different picture. Today, instead of Francis we have Sofia. Instead of Scorsese, we have Paul Anderson.

[TheJabberwock]

@kubrickzghost Michael Bay's style is like Tony Scott meets Brett Ratner.

[shurikenbrothers]

Kubrick, leone, coppola, scorcese, de palma, lynch, and Michael Bay are my favorites

[kowalski619]

no way are you serious about liking Bay, the first 6 are geniuses definitely, but Bay?! Please tell me you're joking.

[shurikenbrothers]

yeah i was kidding, i dont actually like bay (or lynch for that matter).

[doorsfan4ourever]

come on michael bay sucks cock. i'm a huge fan of coppola, scorsese and kubrick though

[basketballjocks]

@doorsfan4ourever look, i love classic, perfect movies as much as the next guy, but who doesnt want to see random shit blow up once in a while?

[CubbageClips]

Other than the not going to college thing (my marks are 75-80 range) it sounds like he's going through my own life as well. Good lord, the similarities...

[priapus56]

Actually, don't bother. Having just looked at your favourites, I think you will struggle to understand what I am saying. Review the situation if you ever get beyond the mental age of 11.

[coasttocoastsun]

Wow this is so great. Thanks for putting this out there.

[josh66694]

you twat.

[m3talmilitia15]

:D I joke!

[josh66694]

lol

[Somone23]

lololol

[m3talmilitia15]

I'm actually mildly enlightened by the amount of disrespect my first comment has been given. Well done, internets.

[mistersunlight]

You're negatively comparing Bay, a media whore director who's only selling point is blowing shit up, to a late veteran who was a master of cinematography and believed in quality over quantity.

Stop being a sheep of the collective flock of teenage movie goers, watch more vintage cinema.

[m3talmilitia15]

lmao, take it easy. If you read any of the after comments, you would have seen that my first one was a joke. I'm actually a film minor in university atm, I hate michael bay, and Stanley Kubrick is one of my favorite directors.

[mistersunlight]

Lol yeah, sorry. It's just most of the kids nowadays annoy me when I hear them talk about Transformers being a 'good' movie. Good to hear that you like, Kubrick.

[Somone23]

dude. he's being sarcastic. shut up

[El135o]

Funny what Kubrick said about books, because ALL his movies were based on books!

[Manzeron]

It breaks the stereotypes about Genius.

[Hal9000ize]

@El135o Correction, His first two movies and his three shorts are original plots.

[dontleademsomuch]

kubrick had a a fetish for tape recorders so the start with his fucking sexy bronx accent announcing the interview rings true

[tall32guy]

@dontleademsomuch I thought he was from Brooklyn. LOL Oh well, talented and a cool accent anyway. LOL :)

[silverdale247]

Thanks for posting this!!

Looking forward to hearing the rest.

I have never heard his voice or seen an interview of him. I was always under the impression that he was an insular person. Judging by what I have heard so far in this upload, nothing could be further from the truth!

He actually seems like a charming and sociable person.

[indiecassidy23]

Kubrick, Lynch, Polanski, Scorsese & Hitchcock are amongst my favourites

[AwesomeCoasters]

@indiecassidy23

theyre the best

[doorsfan4ourever]

@indiecassidy23

[rockyfan94]

@indiecassidy23 liked polanksi untill I found out he was a paedophile

[TheScrewball1982]

@rockyfan94 He's not a paedophile, it's a misrepresented case

[TheScrewball1982]

@indiecassidy23 You have epic taste dude...I have that list, and add to it Cronenberg, Fincher, Nolan and Kurosawa

[AlexHippert]

Nice list, specially for Kubrick obviously and Sergei Eisenstein, I will add Alfred Hitchcock and Luis Buñuel...nice!

[KajiCarson]

Nice list indeed. I would probably add David Lynch as well, but that's more like an personal preference.

[blackstonefilms123]

1,kubrick 2, ridley scott 3, akira kurosawa 4, sergei eisenstein 5, ingmar bergman

[dontleademsomuch]

ridley scott??! hahahaha above bergman and kurosawa!

that now-hack has only made two great films. both of em sci-fi!

[blackstonefilms123]

Ridley scott is one of the best directers of modern times all his film look brilliant and are great fun to watch. You obviously think the best directors are all old directors.

[dontleademsomuch]

well yeah of course!! you think gi jane is fun to watch or a good year?? i pity you

[priapus56]

Ridley Scott makes brilliant films....for the under 11's.

[shoebrush101]

really? didn't know blade runner was meant for under 11's, thanks for clearing that up...they should have thought to give you a call before they started making that movie...

[priapus56]

Perhaps you could point out the difference to me between Blade Runner and Superman comics and Dr Who.

[burlearth]

they're not so great either.

[Manzeron]

Where are Pasolini, Felini, Lynch, Bunuel, Kielowski

( who was particulary apreciated by Stanley Kubrick),Almodovar, Welles...

[isabelfuentesnar]

@Manzeron AlmoWHAT??, I´m spanish and I can tell you Almodovar has no talent at all, he´s very good with the media and has very good friends in politics so he can get money from the administration to make his films (that´s his real talent).

On the other side I think Buñuel is a real talent with a enormous vision.