There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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