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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.

Stanley Kubrick

Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Everybody has their black moments.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Black Everybody Moments
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICK

Alive Jackets Knows
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Done Jobs Story
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Care Way
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking

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