Stanley Kubrick Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Interviews, Problem

  "Kubrick on Barry Lyndon". Interview with Michel Ciment, www.visual-memory.co.uk. 1982.

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• If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Teaching, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• 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

  Used And Abused, Giving, Alcohol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Magic, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Jobs, Character, Exercise

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• Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

  Stanley Kubrick

  Trying, Hollywood, Film

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• You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

  Stanley Kubrick

  World, End Of The World, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Spoiled, Destruction

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• Everybody has their black moments.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Black, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Giving, Needs, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Book, School, Years

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

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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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Passion, Thinking About You, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Book, Eye, Cutting

  Interview with Charles Reynolds, Popular Photography, 1960.

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, What If

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Stanley Kubrick

  Regret, Obsessed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Men, Light, Darkness

  "Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion". Ninth edition, p. 403, 1988.

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• A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Views, Optimism, Might

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• Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stress, Thinking, Pills

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• I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Sex, Thoughtful, Thinking

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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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Duplicity, People

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

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Jobs, Wings, Trying

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

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• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

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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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Horror Genre

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