Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICKBad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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