How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICKBad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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 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’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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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 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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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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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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