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.
STANLEY KUBRICKShooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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