How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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