Famous Stanley Kubrick Quotations

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"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."
by Stanley Kubrick
"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"
by Stanley Kubrick
"Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble."
by Stanley Kubrick
"I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about movie making, but I couldn't do any worse than this'."
by Stanley Kubrick
"People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe"
by Stanley Kubrick
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
by Stanley Kubrick
"Geroge Peatty: I'm gonna have it, Sherry. Hundreds of thousands, maybe a half million. Sherry Peatty: Of course you are, darling. Did you..."
by Stanley Kubrick
"George Peatty: Tell me something, wouldya Sherry? Just tell me one thing. Why did you ever marry me anyway? Sherry Peatty: Oh, George. Wh..."
by Stanley Kubrick
"Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?"
by Stanley Kubrick
"It's a bad joke without a punchline."
by Stanley Kubrick
"Johnny Clay: You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. So play it smart. Stay in character and you'..."
by Stanley Kubrick
"Like the man said, can happiness buy money?"
by Stanley Kubrick
"No more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way."
by Stanley Kubrick
"There are some things, my dear Fisher, which do not bear much looking into. You undoubtedly have heard of the Siberian goat herder who tried t..."
by Stanley Kubrick
"You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart."
by Stanley Kubrick
"You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but the..."
by Stanley Kubrick
"Your money's no good here. Orders of the house."
by Stanley Kubrick


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