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 happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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 used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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