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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

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
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting

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