The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICKEither you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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