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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

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
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
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
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 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

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