Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting the scene, is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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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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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
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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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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.
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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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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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You either care or you don’t.
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My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The best education in film is to make one
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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.