Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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’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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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 either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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