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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

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow

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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