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.
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 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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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