Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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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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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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