Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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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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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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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 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 screen is a magic medium.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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