There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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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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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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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