One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICKGod has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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