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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

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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
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

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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