Un des plus appréciés de tous les réalisateurs, Stanley Kubrick est aussi un des plus mystérieux. Il entre dans le monde du cinéma, ambitieux, à l'âge de 26 ans et réalise son premier film Killer's Kiss. Il collabore q... > voir plus
“One of the ironies in The Shining is that you have people who can see the past and the future and have telepathic contact, but the telephone and the short-wave radio don’t work, and the snow-bound mountains roads are impassable. Failure of communication is a theme which runs through a number of my films.”
Stanley Kubrick
“When you get right down to it, the family is the most primitive and visceral wit in our society. You may stand outside your wife’s hospital room during childbirth muttering : “My God, what a responsibility! Is it right to take on this terrible obligation ? What am I really doing here ? and then you go in and look down at the face of your child and –zap!- that ancient programming takes over and your response is one of wonder and joy and pride”.”
Stanley Kubrick
“He’s probably the most heartfelt person I ever met. It’s hard for him, being from the Bronx with that neighborhood mentality, and he tries to cover it up. Right underneath that veneer is a very loving, very consciousness man, who doesn’t like pain, who doesn’t like to see human suffering or animals suffering, I was really surprised by the man.”
Matthew Modine
“Aaron Stern, the former head of the MPAA rating board in America, who is also a practising psychiatrist, has suggested that Alex represents the unconscious man in his natural state. After he is given the Ludovico “cure” he has been “civilized”, and the sickness that follows may be viewed as the neurosis imposed by society.”
Stanley Kubrick