Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
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Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
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The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.
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I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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We only live once, so I want to think big.
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Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
