"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
― Stanley Kubrick
Topic(s): Great
More From Stanley Kubrick
- "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Great
- "Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life."― Robin Hayes
- "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."― George Bernard Shaw
- "Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."― E. O. Wilson