Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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 afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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 happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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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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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 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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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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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