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

Stanley Kubrick

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’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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy Thinking
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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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