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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The screen is a magic medium.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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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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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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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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