Stanley Kubrick Quotes

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

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• 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.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• 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.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Star
  • Problems
  • Slave

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Film
  • Weird
  • First

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Simple

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Imagination
  • Vision
  • Product

• 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.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Good
  • Single

• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Film
  • Years
  • Criticism

• 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?

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wife
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• '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.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Perfect

• When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

  

  Jeremy Robinson
  • Imagination
  • Green
  • Profound

• I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.

  

  SZA
  • Film
  • Inspiration
  • Visual

• Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Reality

• But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Die
  • Possible
  • Thinks

• We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother's incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they're black.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Imagination
  • Film
  • Term