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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

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.
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Death Hair Science
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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 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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
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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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
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
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments

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