The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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