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Stanley Kubrick
Age: 70 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Died: 1999
Died: March 7
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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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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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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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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
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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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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.
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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
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You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
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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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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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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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If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
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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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The best education in film is to make one
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I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
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