Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
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The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
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Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.
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When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
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It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.
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I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.
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I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
