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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.

Stanley Kubrick

Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
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
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
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood

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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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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