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.
STANLEY KUBRICKI’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.
More Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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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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