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.
STANLEY KUBRICKA 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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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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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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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