One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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