Stanley Kubrick Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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  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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Cameras, Sound, Ridiculous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Editing, Phases

• The best education in film is to make one

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film, Best Education

• One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Writing, Men, Symphony

  The Edmonton Journal, C3, March 08, 1999.

• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  War, Writing, Car

  Acceptance speech of the D.W. Griffiths Lifetime Achievement Award, www.indelibleinc.com. 1999.

• I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Unhappy, Film

• The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Powerful, Reality, Yield

• Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

  Stanley Kubrick

  Trying, Hollywood, Film

• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Duplicity, People

• Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Opinion, Film, Critical

• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, What If

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Motivational, Successful, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophical, Wish, Maps

• A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Giving, Needs, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Imagination, Narrative, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, What If

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Passion, Thinking About You, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Book, Eye, Cutting

  Interview with Charles Reynolds, Popular Photography, 1960.

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

  Stanley Kubrick

  Beautiful, Men, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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