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
STANLEY KUBRICKEverybody has their black moments.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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.
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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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 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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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.
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