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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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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 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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
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
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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

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