Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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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
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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s 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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Everybody has their black moments.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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