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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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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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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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