Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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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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