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Stanley Kubrick
American
Director
About the author
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Nations
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.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Hope
#Art
#Moods
#Power
#Magic
#Emotions
#Interest
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Encouraging
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Pity
What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
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.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Heart
#Idea
#Ideas
#Chess
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Time
#Chance
#Risk
#Job
#Worth
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Nations
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Man
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.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Film
#Moods
#Music
#Fiction
#Meaning
#Feelings
#Emotion
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Sense
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Love
#Pity
#Mistake
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Talk
#Illusion
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Thought
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Harm
#Months
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Freedom
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Years
#Old
#School
#Pleasure
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.
Stanley Kubrick,
American
Director
#Film