Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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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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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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