Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverybody has their black moments.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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.
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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