Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICKYou’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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 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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