Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

The color of truth is gray.

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

Facts are often complicated.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.