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Film Quotes by Stanley Kubrick
- 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…
- I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a…
- 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…
- The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over…
- 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…
- Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality…
- One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
- Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
- 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…
- You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded…
- A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
- The best education in film is to make one
- Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in…
- A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme,…
- Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make…
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