Top 28 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

About Stanley Kubrick

These are some quotes by American author Stanley Kubrick Director, who lived between July 26, 1928 and March 7, 1999.

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

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

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

Stanley Kubrick

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.

Stanley Kubrick

I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to, I would. Perhaps it's a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot's licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes.

Stanley Kubrick

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

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

Stanley Kubrick

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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