Stanley Kubrick Quotes

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• Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

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  Ideas, Ignite, Know How

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

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  Light, Darkness, Existentialism

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

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  Light, Darkness, Meaning Of Life

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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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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  Thinking, Feels

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• Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

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  Care, Way, If You Care

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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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  Art, Fun, Tests

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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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  Attitude, Heart, Thinking

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• I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

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  Want, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

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  Jobs, Stories, Done

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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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  Real, People, Dangerous

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

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  Men, Creative, Force

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

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  Dangerous, Sure Thing

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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

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  Silly, Men, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Perfect, Individuality, Monsters

  "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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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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  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

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  History, Political, Humour

  In Guardian 5 June 1963

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• The best education in film is to make one

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  Film, Best Education

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• The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

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  Important, Ability, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

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  Film Directing, Directors, Filmmaking

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

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  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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

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  Personality, Enigma, Clear

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.

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• Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

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  Happiness, Money, Men

  "Fictional character: Vinnie Rapallo". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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• Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

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  Learning, Thinking, Looks

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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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  Facts, Indifferent, Hostile

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• 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.

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  Stars, Light, Race

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