It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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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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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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