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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

I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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 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
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 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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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 afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
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

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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