Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICKTake a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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, 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 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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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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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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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