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.
STANLEY KUBRICKAll my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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’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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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