Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICKAnybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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