A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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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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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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