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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

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Darkness Life Light Meaning
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
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
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

Practice Punishment Violence
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
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying

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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