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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

You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy

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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