Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICKCritical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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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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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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