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.
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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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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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The screen is a magic medium.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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