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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.

— Stanley Kubrick

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I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner.

Kubrick : Inside a Film Artist's Maze (2000)

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment (1982)

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013)

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation.

Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013)

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