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.
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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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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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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