There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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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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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 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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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