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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 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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
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.
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Crazy Thinking
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent

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