"You're an idealist, and I pity you as……" — Stanley Kubrick

"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."

— Stanley Kubrick

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75 Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain…
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to…
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains…
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield…
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea,…
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm…
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They…
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have…
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything,…
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 Idealist Quotes

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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded… — Irving Babbitt
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.… — Michele Bachmann
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of… — Geraldine Brooks
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help… — Joyce Brothers
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide. — Unknown Author
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing… — Adolf Hitler
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and… — Chris Hedges
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Woodrow Wilson
Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton

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