New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
STANLEY KUBRICKAll my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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