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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

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking

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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