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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.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
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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Individuality Monsters Perfect
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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’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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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’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
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 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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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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