The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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 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.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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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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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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