Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Everybody has their black moments.
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I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.
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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Chess 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
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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You either care or you don’t.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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The best education in film is to make one
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
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My reputation has grown slowly.