The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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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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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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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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