I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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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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I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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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’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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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.
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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.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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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