Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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