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.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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 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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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The 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
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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