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.
STANLEY KUBRICKI 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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