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