Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.”

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

“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.”

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”

“I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should be, 'Don't try to fly too high,' or, 'Forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.'”

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

“The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated.”

“Real is good, interesting is better.”

“A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist, thanks to the relentless expansion of technology.”

“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel.”

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

“The best education in film is to make one.”