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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001

Stanley Kubrick

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

End Movie World
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

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
STANLEY KUBRICK

Ideas Ignorance People
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Critical Film Opinion
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Darkness Life Light Meaning
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect

Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001

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