You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKCritical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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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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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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How 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.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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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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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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