I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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.
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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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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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