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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick
Age: 70 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Died: 1999
Died: March 7
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I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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