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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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
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
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
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
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life

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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