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Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

Stanley Kubrick

You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
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
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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 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
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
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.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking

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