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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More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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 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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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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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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