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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.

Stanley Kubrick

You 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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Heart Learning Moving
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
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
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
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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

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