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.
STANLEY KUBRICKBad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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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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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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