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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

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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

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