Stanley Kubrick quotes and sayings
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick quotes
- You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
- 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.
- If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
- 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.
- 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.
- When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
- If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
- I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
- A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
- What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?