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.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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.
STANLEY KUBRICKA 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.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICKEither you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICKGod has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICKLike the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKI 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.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou 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 KUBRICKShooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICKTake a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’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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