I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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