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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Stanley Kubrick

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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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Book Cutting Eye
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy 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
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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 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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

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