Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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.
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I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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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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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.