The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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 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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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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