Stanley Kubrick Quotes

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

The essence of cinema is editing.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I try and let the film do the talking.

I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

I studied film studies at USC.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

Film is a very intimate medium.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

I really, really love directing films.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.