Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Everybody has their black moments.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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 happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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