The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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 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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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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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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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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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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