You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICKHow does anybody ever think of anything?
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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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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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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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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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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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. 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 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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