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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Stanley Kubrick

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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
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
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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Apocalypse Program Thinking
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
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
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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 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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking

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