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.
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 screen is a magic medium.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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. 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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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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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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