The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICKYou 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 destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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