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

~ Stanley Kubrick

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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.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Education Fear Interest Learning

Observation is a dying art.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Art Film Observation

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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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.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make you strong. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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

~ Stanley Kubrick

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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

Stanley Kubrick Art Film Philosophy

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

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Getting Going

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

Stanley Kubrick Art Power Magic

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.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Movies Meaning Emotion

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

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Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Great Control Chess

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.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to, I would. Perhaps it's a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot's licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Time Light I Am

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Football Problem Years
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