Stanley Kubrick Quotes

The screen is a magic medium.

Stanley Kubrick

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• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Some People

• 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

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Cold

• This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Decision
  • Vision

• I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Morning

• The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Good
  • Advice

• A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Heart
  • Church

• My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

  

  Win Butler
  • Time
  • Live
  • Night

• People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People

• I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Job

• I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• Tom McMillen was a three-term congressman from Maryland. He is the tallest member of Congress. Period. He's 6'11''.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Period

• Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Important

• I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

  

  Bennett Miller

• It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time
  • Law

• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Animal

• I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Control

• The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

  

  Paul Weyrich

• Mathematical magic combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

  

  Martin Gardner
  • Value
  • Magic

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• The screen is a magic medium.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Magic
  • Mediums
  • Screens