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
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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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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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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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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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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