The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
STANLEY KUBRICKHere’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
-
-
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICK -
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK -
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 -
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
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 -
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK -
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK