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.
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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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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.
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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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Everybody has their black moments.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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