The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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