Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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 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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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