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.
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"Perhaps it's a good thing that I'm not very social, because I don't think I could stand the company of most living people."
"I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in hard work, and I believe in technique."
"I don't believe in God, but I believe in something bigger than ourselves. Call it the universe, call it nature, call it whatever you want, but there's something out there that's beyond our comprehensi…"
"The most overrated film of all time is 'Citizen Kane'."
"I've never been interested in making films that are easy to understand. I want to make films that challenge people, that make them think."
American filmmaker (2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining) whose perfectionist year-long shoots and 100-take method redefined auteurist cinema. Closely associated with Orson Welles (auteur predecessor and Citizen Kane director) and Steven Spielberg (younger collaborator (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)). For an intellectual contrast, see Quentin Tarantino, postmodern American filmmaker — Kubrick's films erase influences into singular monolithic vision; Tarantino's foreground every reference as a deliberate tribute. The two opposite ways auteurist cinema can be made.
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