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.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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