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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking 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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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’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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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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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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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