The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICKHow does anybody ever think of anything?
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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