Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICKI never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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’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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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