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.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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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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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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 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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