A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Quote by Stanley Kubrick

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If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure...

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure...

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that...

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that...

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest...

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest...

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself...

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself...

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the...

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the...

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by...

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by...

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest...

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest...

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be...

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be...

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It...

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It...

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick...

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick...

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused...

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused...