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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Stanley Kubrick

Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
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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Practice Punishment Violence
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
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
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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

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