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 do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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The screen is a magic medium.
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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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