The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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 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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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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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