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
I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.
The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meanings. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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.
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
The screen is a magic medium...
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
My reputation has grown slowly.
How does anybody ever think of anything?
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.