You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Everybody has their black moments.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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