The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICKYou sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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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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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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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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