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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

Stanley Kubrick

I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
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
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress 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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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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