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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

How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
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 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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