Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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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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