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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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...

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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...

The awkward moment when a film says, 'Based on a true story.' and it automatically...

The awkward moment when a film says, 'Based on a true story.' and it automatically...

Did you know if you yell 'Bloody Mary' 3 times in the mirror at 3am...

Did you know if you yell 'Bloody Mary' 3 times in the mirror at 3am...