I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICKOne man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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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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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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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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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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