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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.

Stanley Kubrick

I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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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Individuality Monsters Perfect
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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Beautiful Film Men
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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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Care Way
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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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Book Cutting Eye

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