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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

Stanley Kubrick

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen

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