The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick
Topics: Nationalism, Nationality, Nations, Nation
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
—Stanley Kubrick
Topics: Problem-solving, Illusion, Getting Going, Inaction, Problems, Procrastination
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
—Stanley Kubrick
Topics: Instincts
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick
Topics: Nation, Nationality, Nations, Nationalism
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
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