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 KUBRICKNew 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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