15 Stanley Kubrick Quotes for You to Enjoy

Stanley Kubrick

American Director

Born: Jul 26, 1928

Died: Mar 7, 1999

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

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

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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

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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

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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

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Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience. Stanley Kubrick

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker? Stanley Kubrick

Me You Take Sucker Fourteen

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised. Stanley Kubrick

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Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble. Stanley Kubrick

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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

Best Young Kind Some Perhaps Make Sounds Camera Get Any Movie Hold Young Filmmakers Should Ridiculous Film Thing Filmmakers

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car. Stanley Kubrick

Problem Car Somebody Everyone Wear Somehow Something Writes Football Instance Myths Part Over Until Read Repeated Years Off Wall Accumulate Gets Cannot Helmet Dispel Believes

I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to, I would. Perhaps it's a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot's licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes. Stanley Kubrick

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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. Stanley Kubrick

Man Be A Man He Ceases Cannot Choose

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there. Stanley Kubrick

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

Book School Old Pleasure Never Until Read Learned Years Anything

Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life. Stanley Kubrick

Life Art Cause Consists Does Nor Create

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