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.
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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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