Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKEverybody has their black moments.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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