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Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
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
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled

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