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.
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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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