Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrickwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 July 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Stanley Kubrick quotes about
The best education in film is to make one
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.
Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, 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.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.