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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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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
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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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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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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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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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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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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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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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You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
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Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
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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