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Stanley Kubrick
Age: 70 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Died: 1999
Died: March 7
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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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I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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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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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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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
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