Stanley Kubrick
American · 1928–1999
Perfectionist filmmaker whose genre-defining works across science fiction, horror, and war cinema set unmatched standards for visual storytelling.
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“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
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“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.”
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“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”
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“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad.”
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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.”
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“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
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