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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.

Stanley Kubrick

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Done Jobs Story
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Like Movie Obsessed
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICK

Alive Jackets Knows
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

End Movie World
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Dying Fear Tomorrow
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Spoiled
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 KUBRICK

Book Cutting Eye
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking

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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