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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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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.
Stanley Kubrick
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Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.
Stanley Kubrick -
You either care or you don’t.
Stanley Kubrick -
I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
Stanley Kubrick -
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Stanley Kubrick -
My reputation has grown slowly.
Stanley Kubrick
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
Stanley Kubrick -
Everybody has their black moments.
Stanley Kubrick -
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
Stanley Kubrick -
Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
Stanley Kubrick -
I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
Stanley Kubrick -
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.
Stanley Kubrick
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
Stanley Kubrick -
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick -
Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.
Stanley Kubrick -
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.
Stanley Kubrick -
The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
Stanley Kubrick -
I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.
Stanley Kubrick
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
Stanley Kubrick -
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
Stanley Kubrick -
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick -
One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
Stanley Kubrick