You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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It’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.
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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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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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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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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 not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The screen is a magic medium.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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