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.
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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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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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