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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.

Stanley Kubrick

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
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
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
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

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