Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

About Stanley Kubrick:

Stanley Kubrick is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time. His films are typically adaptations of novels or short stories covering a wide range of genres, and are noted for their unique cinematography, set design, attention to detail and realism, dark humour, and the evocative use of music.
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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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

Observation is a dying art.

Stanley Kubrick

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

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.

Stanley Kubrick

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

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

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

Stanley Kubrick

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Stanley Kubrick

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Stanley Kubrick

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

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.

Stanley Kubrick

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Stanley Kubrick

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

Stanley Kubrick

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as...

Stanley Kubrick

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write...

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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Stanley Kubrick

Author Bio

  • NameStanley Kubrick
  • DescriptionAmerican film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
  • BornJuly 26, 1928
  • DiedMarch 7, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Cinematographer; Photographer; Film Producer; Screenwriter
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Visual Effects