All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICKHere’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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