Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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 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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Everybody has their black moments.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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