It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
STANLEY KUBRICKThe great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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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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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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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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