Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.
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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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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.