One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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