Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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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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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I’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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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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