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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

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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

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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