Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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 love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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