The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICKBad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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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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