One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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