The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICKDon’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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It’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.
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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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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.
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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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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 destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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