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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Stanley Kubrick

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

Practice Punishment Violence
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Like Movie Obsessed
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Planets Scales
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking

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