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.
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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Everybody has their black moments.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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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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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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