You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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