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
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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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The screen is a magic medium.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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