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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

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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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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