A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICKGod has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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