Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Film is forever.

I don't change. The things around me change.

Human-nature will not change.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

History develops, art stands still.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

Everything changes but change.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

Cinema is always evolving.

Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Things change, but they stay the same.