You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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 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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Everybody has their black moments.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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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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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 a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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 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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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