Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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 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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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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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.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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