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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.

Stanley Kubrick

I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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
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
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
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
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men

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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