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

Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
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
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
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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

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