Stanley Kubrick Quotes & Quotations

Stanley Kubrick Quotes

» You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

» If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

» I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

» The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

» Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

» A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

» The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

» The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

» 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.

» If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

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