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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Stanley Kubrick

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years
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 KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Causes Life
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men
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 KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK

Pills Stress Thinking
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Done Jobs Story

I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

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