"Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion."

-- Stanley Kubrick

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“Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.”
“I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.”
“I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.”
“But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.”
“What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.”
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.”
“When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.”
“We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?”

Source : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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