I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe screen is a magic medium.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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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.
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I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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