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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Stanley Kubrick

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
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

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