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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Stanley Kubrick

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Dying Fear Tomorrow
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Clear Enigma Personality
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK

Pills Stress Thinking
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Anything Nobody Thinking
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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Causes Life
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
Everybody has their black moments.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Black Everybody Moments

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