Stanley Kubrick Quotes

"I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are."
-Stanley Kubrick in Tragedy quotes.

"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."
-Stanley Kubrick in Movies quotes.

"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 good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."
-Stanley Kubrick

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
-Stanley Kubrick in Movies quotes.

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."
-Stanley Kubrick in Television quotes.

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
-Stanley Kubrick

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
-Stanley Kubrick

"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."
-Stanley Kubrick

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
-Stanley Kubrick