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Stanley Kubrick Inspirational Quotes (71)

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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
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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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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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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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I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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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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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
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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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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
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Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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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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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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The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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The best education in film is to make one
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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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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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