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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
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
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
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.
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might Optimism Views
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
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
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

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