Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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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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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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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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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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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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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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