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 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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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