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.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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 not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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