I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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 either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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