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
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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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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