Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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You either care or you don’t.
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
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The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.