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1. "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

2. "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." ~ Stanley Kubrick

3. "A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper." ~ Stanley Kubrick

4. "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

5. "If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." ~ Stanley Kubrick

6. "It's a mistake to confuse pity with love." ~ Stanley Kubrick

7. "Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me." ~ Stanley Kubrick

8. "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." ~ Stanley Kubrick

9. "You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot." ~ Stanley Kubrick

10. "The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive" ~ Stanley Kubrick

11. "If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive." ~ Stanley Kubrick

12. "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

13. "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." ~ Stanley Kubrick

14. "I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old." ~ Stanley Kubrick

15. "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

16. "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

17. "If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective — who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled — can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache." ~ Stanley Kubrick

18. "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

19. "Observation is a dying art." ~ Stanley Kubrick

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