I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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 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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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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