Stanley Kubrick Quotes

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

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• There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Political
  • Model
  • Connection

• I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thought
  • Passionate
  • WIld

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Want
  • Best

• The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Mistake
  • Errors
  • Religions

• Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Age
  • Strength
  • Old Age

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • World
  • Progress
  • Prison

• There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Live
  • Women
  • Way

• I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Believe
  • City

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

  

  Bernice King
  • Time
  • Humanity
  • Spiritual

• Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Man
  • Story
  • Place

• There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

  

  Susan B. Anthony
  • Woman
  • Bread
  • Dependence

• I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

  

  Daphne du Maurier
  • Writing

• Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Film
  • Rules
  • Forces

• One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Novel