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 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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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