The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou 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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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 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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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’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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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