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Stanley Kubrick
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
— Quoted in The Edmonton Journal (8 March 1999), C3
Stanley Kubrick
American filmmaker (1928–1999)
- Fame79.0
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- Global rank#226
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- Fame79.0
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- Global rank#226
- United States rank#174
- Directors rank#27
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Lived 1928–1999, aged 71United States
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He shot fewer than a dozen features across five decades, yet each became a technical benchmark or a cultural argument — the director who turned obsessive control and endless retakes into films that redefined what the medium could look like.
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Born in New York City in 1928, Kubrick worked as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s before making his first major Hollywood film, The Killing, in 1956. After two collaborations with Kirk Douglas — the anti-war Paths of Glory (1957) and the epic Spartacus (1960) — he settled in England in 1961, eventually centralizing all his work at Childwickbury Manor with his wife Christiane in 1978. There he secured near-total artistic control, backed by major studios, and made a string of films that broke ground: the Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove (1964), the scientifically precise 2001: A…
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Stanley Kubrick
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Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed.
— Quoted in Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (1999) by Frederic Raphael, p. 107
Stanley Kubrick
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
— Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1988), p. 403. Seems that this sentence first appeared in an 1968 Playboy
Stanley Kubrick
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I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.
— "Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment" (1982)
Stanley Kubrick
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it.
— Newsweek (26 May 1980)
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- Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
- Sitges Grand Honorary Award
- BAFTA Fellowship
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