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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

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 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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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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Practice Punishment Violence
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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

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