192 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

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.

Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.

You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.

Private Joker is silly and he’s ignorant but he’s got guts and guts is enough.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ’forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

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

All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

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.