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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick
Age: 70 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Died: 1999
Died: March 7
Camera Operator
Chess Player
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Director
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Editor
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The Bronx
New York City
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
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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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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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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse that isn't first degree murder in fact, it isn't even murder in fact, I don't know what it is.
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It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.
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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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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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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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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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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
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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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