Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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The best education in film is to make one
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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.
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I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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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.
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My reputation has grown slowly.
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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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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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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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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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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.