I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly. Stanley Kubrick More Quotes by Stanley Kubrick More Quotes From Stanley Kubrick Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing. Stanley Kubrick sure-thing dangerous I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick motivation fear education The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it. Stanley Kubrick ability important feels The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie. Stanley Kubrick consciousness break loss The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours. Stanley Kubrick stars light race Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere. Stanley Kubrick obsessed regret How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001. Stanley Kubrick appreciate secret reality Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie. Stanley Kubrick obsessed The best education in film is to make one Stanley Kubrick best-education film 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. Stanley Kubrick magic emotion art It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. Stanley Kubrick pity mistake [Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. Stanley Kubrick photograph trying reality 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 phases editing thinking 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 mind ideas thinking Like the man said, can happiness buy money? Stanley Kubrick money happiness men The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance. Stanley Kubrick exercise jobs character 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. Stanley Kubrick essence people ideas I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Stanley Kubrick stars heart believe You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. Stanley Kubrick learning heart moving No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good. Stanley Kubrick views men philosophy
