The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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 happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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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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Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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