You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKI 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The screen is a magic medium.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making 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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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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