Stanley Kubrick on art

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.

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

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (1601), Act I, scene i.In context

• Love
• Music

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost1874–1963

• Poetry

Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

• Love
• Music