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.
STANLEY KUBRICKNew 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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 whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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