How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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