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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

The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
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 just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Like Movie Obsessed
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.
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Editing Phases Thinking
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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

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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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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