The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe screen is a magic medium.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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