You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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