You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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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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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.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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