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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Stanley Kubrick

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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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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Book Cutting Eye
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
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 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
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

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