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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.

Stanley Kubrick

You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Idealist Idiots Pity Village
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Clear Enigma Personality
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Spoiled
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Heart Learning Moving
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Planets Scales
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political

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