The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverybody has their black moments.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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The 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.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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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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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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