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.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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