Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel. — 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 feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 and the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“ [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 Image
