"There's something in the human personality which resents……" — Stanley Kubrick
"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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75 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick has 75 quotes on this site.
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain…
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I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to…
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains…
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield…
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The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
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If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea,…
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm…
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They…
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have…
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The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything,…
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to…
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More Allegories Quotes
This quote is filed under Allegories Quotes,
one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
— Herman Melville
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
— Manuel Puig
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A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
— Laurie Cabot
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Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories…
— Henry Timrod
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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
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The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and…
— William Howard Taft
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
— Walter Benjamin
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed…
— A. S. Byatt
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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct -…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of…
— Milan Kundera
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A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the…
— Allen Ginsberg
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