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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Stanley Kubrick

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
STANLEY KUBRICK

might Optimism Views
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
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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

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