Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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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