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.
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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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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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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