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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Stanley Kubrick

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying
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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Done Jobs Story
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Darkness Life Light Meaning
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men
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

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

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