You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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 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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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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