Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICKHow 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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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 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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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 sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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