Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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 screen is a magic medium.
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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 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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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