There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe screen is a magic medium.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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 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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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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