God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICKLike the man said, can happiness buy money?
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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 destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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