Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICKSanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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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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