I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.
Interpretation
Embracing the unexpected can lead to enriching experiences in learning.
Stanley Kubrick emphasizes the importance of exploration and openness in the pursuit of knowledge. By ordering books and browsing bookstores with a sense of curiosity, he highlights how the act of reading should not be limited to expectations, but rather embraced as a journey of discovery. If a book does not resonate, it’s perfectly acceptable to move on, illustrating the idea that the process of learning should be enjoyable and surprising rather than rigid and structured.
In practice
During a book club meeting, to encourage members to try new genres.
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.
Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there.
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
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.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
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