Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICKIt’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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 just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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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