You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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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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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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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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