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Stanley Kubrick Inspirational Quotes (71)

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Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001
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All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.
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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
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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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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse that isn't first degree murder in fact, it isn't even murder in fact, I don't know what it is.
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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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Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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