The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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 screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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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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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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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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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