Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe screen is a magic medium.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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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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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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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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