You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICKArt consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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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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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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