Stanley Kubrick Short Quotes

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Truth is too multi-faceted to be contained in a five-line summary.

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Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

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

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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

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Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

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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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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

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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.

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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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I think you're some kind of deviated prevert, and I think General Ripper found out about your preversion and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.

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Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end.

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Confront a man in his office with a nuclear alarm, and you have a documentary. If the news reaches him in his living room, you have a drama. If it catches him in the lavatory, the result is comedy.

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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.

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