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
STANLEY KUBRICKI love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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 afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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