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.
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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking 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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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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’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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