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• The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

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  Essence, Ideas, People

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

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophy, Men, Views

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• Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

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  Obsessed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Inspirational, Boys, Play

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

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  Village Idiots, Pity, Idealist

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  Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Cameras, Sound, Ridiculous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

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  Alive, Jackets, Knows

  "Fictional character: Private Joker". "Full Metal Jacket", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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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?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Writing, Men, Symphony

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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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.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Able

  "Fictional character: Davey Gordon". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

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  Moving, Learning, Heart

  Newsweek, May 26, 1980.

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• 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.

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  Reality, Appreciate, Secret

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• There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

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  Dies, Seeing

  "Fictional character: Gen. George Broulard". "Paths of Glory", www.imdb.com. 1957.

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• In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.

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  Teacher, Art, Needs

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• It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Mistake, Pity

  "Fictional character: Gloria Price". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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

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  Spoiled, Destruction

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• I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.

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  Stars, Believe, Heart

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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.

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  Teaching, Intellectual, Intelligence

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

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  Beautiful, Men, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Everybody has their black moments.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Black, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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.

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  Jobs, Character, Exercise

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

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  World, End Of The World, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

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  Thinking, Editing, Phases

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