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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick
Age: 70 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Died: 1999
Died: March 7
Camera Operator
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Thing
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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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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
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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 truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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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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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
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In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.
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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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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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