Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
Quotes to Explore
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
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If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
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Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points!
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Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
