The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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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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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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