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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Stanley Kubrick

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
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
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money

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