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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

Stanley Kubrick

You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
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
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
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
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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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

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