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.
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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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