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.
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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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.
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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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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