I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
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It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
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Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
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Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.
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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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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.
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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.
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I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.
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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.
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