Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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