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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
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'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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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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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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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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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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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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 truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
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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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