One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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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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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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