Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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