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.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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