Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing. Stanley Kubrick More Quotes by Stanley Kubrick More Quotes From Stanley Kubrick In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials. Stanley Kubrick horror-genre art thinking The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. Stanley Kubrick scales planets destruction Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence. Stanley Kubrick upset violence years If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. Stanley Kubrick intelligence intellectual teaching 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 what-if people years A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be. Stanley Kubrick optimism views might 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. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was. Stanley Kubrick views art thinking I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings. Stanley Kubrick wings trying jobs 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 unusual-things people thinking I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style. Stanley Kubrick order reality thinking Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie Stanley Kubrick hollywood film trying I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films. Stanley Kubrick film unhappy God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours. Stanley Kubrick marine fear war I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. Stanley Kubrick book years school 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. Stanley Kubrick dollars risk jobs You either care or you don’t. Stanley Kubrick care If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. Stanley Kubrick matthew would-be baby 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 yield powerful reality If you can talk brilliantly about a problem Stanley Kubrick consoling problem ifs 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 car writing war
