Stanley Kubrick quotes - page 2

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. (Stanley Kubrick)
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. View quote
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It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else. View quote
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. View quote
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The reason movies are often so bad out here isn't because the people who make them are cynical money hacks. Most of them are doing the very best they can; they really want to make good movies. The trouble is with their heads, not their hearts. View quote
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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 and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. View quote
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If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?... Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective - who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled - can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. ... 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. View quote
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Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous. View quote
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Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘'Schindler's List'' is about 600 who don't. Anything else? View quote
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want. View quote
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The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent. (Stanley Kubrick)
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. View quote
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Observation is a dying art. View quote
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If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive. View quote
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Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. View quote
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive. View quote
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Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life. View quote
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job. View quote
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker? View quote
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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. View quote
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I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style. (Stanley Kubrick)
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me. View quote
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