I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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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 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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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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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