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

Stanley Kubrick

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
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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 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 destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody 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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money

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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