Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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Everybody has their black moments.
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I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.
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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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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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The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
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All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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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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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
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No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
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The best education in film is to make one
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.
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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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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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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My reputation has grown slowly.
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If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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