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.
STANLEY KUBRICKSanitised 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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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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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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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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