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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

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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Editing Phases Thinking
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
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
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’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views

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