You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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