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Stanley Kubrick, Director

“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.” —Stanley Kubrick

The cinema is largely a 20th-century art form, born of the marriage of technology and storytelling. But movies engage the viewer in a way totally unlike other narrative forms—the written word, plays, painting, music. Although they incorporate elements from all of these, films can move us in ways hard to pin down. The best engage both intellect and heart, involving our aesthetic sense and our humanity. Stanley Kubrick made the best.

One of the most striking cinematic talents of our time." —Andrew Sarris

"Stanley Kubrick was one of the only modern masters we had... He was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth." —Martin Scorsese

"Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him." —Jack Nicholson

"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