Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
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I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.
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The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
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When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.
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You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
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Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.
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Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting the scene, is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.