A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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