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.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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’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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Everybody has their black moments.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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