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.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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