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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.
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might Optimism Views
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
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
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments

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