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
Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
Everybody has their black moments.