Stanley Kubrick

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

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

— Stanley Kubrick