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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.

Stanley Kubrick

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Anything Nobody Thinking
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Dying Fear Tomorrow
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICK

Alive Jackets Knows
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book Cutting Eye
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 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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK

Pills Stress Thinking
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money

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