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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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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 happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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