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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Stanley Kubrick

Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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Book Cutting Eye
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy Thinking
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking

I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

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