Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
-
Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
-
You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
-
The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
-
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
-
All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
-
My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
-
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
-
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
-
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
-
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
-
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
-
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
-
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
-
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
-
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
-
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
-
'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.
-
I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
-
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
-
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
-
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
-
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
-
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
