I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICKI, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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