How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — 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
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become… — 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
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — 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
Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way. — 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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign… — 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
