A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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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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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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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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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