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.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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 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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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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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