I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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’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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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