chess

film

Icarus

nation

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

film director

filmmaker

innovator in the field of

cinematographer

film producer

photographer

chess player

film editor

camera operator

screenwriter

religion

atheism

executive producer

race / ethnicity

American Jews

cause of death

natural causes

is a game that teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you’re in trouble

is ideally more like music than like fiction... a progression of moods and feelings, while the theme and the meaning come later.

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

is a story whose moral is not "don't fly too close to the sun," but rather, "build better wings!"

In Greek myth, Icarus flew too high and his wings melted. What is the moral' Don't fly too close to the sun' Or is it, as I choo-se to believe: build better wings.

is, in each case, either a gangster or a prostitute. The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

is always like a gangster when large, and like a prostitute when small.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

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Stanley Kubrick