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Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.

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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.

Views, Optimism, Might, Joke, Make, Human

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.

Dollars, Job, Jobs, Million, Rewards, Risk

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Everything, Fear, Kill, Marine, Play, War

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.

Car, Life, Like, Peace, War, Writing

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.

Believe, God, Heart, Monotheistic, Stars, Sun

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Feels, Thing, Think, Thinking, Truth

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Capra, Doe, Frank, Movies, People

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?.

Mad, Men, Space, Strive, Symphony, Writing

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.

Enjoyed, Omission, Reality, Selectivity, Tales, Thinking

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.

Cameras, Film, Perhaps, Ridiculous, Sound, Thing

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Emotional, Give, Giving, Judgement, Use

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

Brilliantly, Consoling, Ifs, Problem, Talk

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

Artist, Artists, Conflict, Criminals, Life, Weakness

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.

Different, Ideas, Mind, Person, Strike, Thinking

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Force, Laid, Practice, Punishment, Violence

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

Beautiful, Film, Men, Same, Stays

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Darkness, Existentialism, Light, Vast

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

Film, Films, Imagination, Narrative, Terms

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Bad, Men, Old, Rejection, Smell

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

Buys, Filmmaker, Novelist, Novelists, Paper, Same

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