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
STANLEY KUBRICKHow 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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’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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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.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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