"A film is - or should be -……" — Stanley Kubrick
"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction."
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75 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick has 75 quotes on this site.
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain…
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I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to…
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains…
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield…
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The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
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If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea,…
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm…
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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…
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have…
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The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything,…
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to…
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More Fiction Quotes
This quote is filed under Fiction Quotes,
one of 2,465 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
— J. J. Abrams
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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