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I used and abused drugs and a...

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The very meaninglessness of l...

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Regret isn't going to get me ...

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The very meaninglessness of l...

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

You're constantly changing ma...

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The director's job is to know...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

I haven't come across any rec...

I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

A film is - or should be - mo...

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The most terrifying fact abou...

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

I've never achieved spectacul...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

You have not yet learned that...

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

However vast the darkness, we...

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

How could we possibly appreci...

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

I'm not afraid of dying tomor...

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The destruction of this plane...

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

There's something in the huma...

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

No philosophy based on an inc...

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The test of a work of art is,...

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The reality of the final mome...

The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Be suspicious of people who h...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

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