Stanley Kubrick on movies

People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.

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

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.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers

I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”

Steve Martinborn 1945

You know what your problem is? It’s that you haven’t seen enough movies⁠—all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Steve Martinborn 1945