All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICKSanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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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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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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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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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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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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