Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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 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 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.
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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