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Stanley Kubrick1928–1999

I don’t like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what’s even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Stanley Kubrick on quotations

“Kubrick on Barry Lyndon: An interview with Michel Ciment” (1982)

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People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849

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