Stanley Kubrick: Doing

Stanley Kubrick was American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”

Stanley Kubrick
Flying , Forgetting

“When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.”

Stanley Kubrick

Interviewed by Charles Kohler, East Village Eye (1968)

People , Imagination , Thinking , Help

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”

Stanley Kubrick

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

Stanley Kubrick

"Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment" (1982) http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.bl.html

Quotes , Problem

“The reason movies are often so bad out here isn't because the people who make them are cynical money hacks. Most of them are doing the very best they can; they really want to make good movies. The trouble is with their heads, not their hearts.”

Stanley Kubrick

Quoted in Against the American Grain (1962) by Dwight Macdonald, p. 30

Money , People , Heart