I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous,… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“A film is -or should be- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“ [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism] No. To see a film once and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
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… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
“ [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism] No. To see a film once and write a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
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