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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.

Stanley Kubrick

I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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, 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
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
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
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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

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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