Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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.
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