Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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