I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICKI 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.
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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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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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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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