Stanley Kubrick (1928–99) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. Part of the New Hollywood film-making wave, Kubrick’s films are considered by film historian Michel Ciment to be “among the most important contributions to world cinema in the twentieth century”, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are typically adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.
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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
Topics: Getting Going, Inaction, Procrastination
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
—Stanley Kubrick
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick
Topics: Nationality
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
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick
Topics: Nationality
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