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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

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

I'm not afraid of dying tomor...

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

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've got a peculiar weakness ...

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

One does not have to make Fra...

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

I’ve never been certain wheth...

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Anybody who runs is a VC. Any...

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Art consists of reshaping lif...

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

You're free to speculate as y...

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

I've never laid a cane on the...

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The whole idea of god is absu...

The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

In his essay on the uncanny, ...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Critical opinion on my films ...

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

You know, I often thought tha...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Suppose by chance you do get ...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

I'm happy - at times - making...

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

My period as a young teenager...

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.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

The destruction of this plane...

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

Know what it is the emotional...

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Stanley Kubrick 132 quotes

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