The screen is a magic medium.
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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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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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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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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 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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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