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I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Stanley Kubrick

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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

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