You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKI never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
More 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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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