All Stanley Kubrick Quotes
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Stanley Kubrick
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It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
Stanley Kubrick
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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.
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick
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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
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
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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
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Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
Stanley Kubrick
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