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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Stanley Kubrick

I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
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 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
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
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men

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