The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICKTake a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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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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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
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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