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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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Editing Phases Thinking
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen

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