You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a…

Quote by Stanley Kubrick

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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 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...