Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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I didn't want 'Mudbound' to feel stylized in any way.
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Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
