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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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.

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.

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...

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any...

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any...

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to...

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes

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...

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...

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...

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion...

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own...

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own...

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it...

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it...