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.
STANLEY KUBRICKHow does anybody ever think of anything?
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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A 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.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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.
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